He had an agonized vision of being collared without ceremony and haled straightway back to Aunt Harriet . When the ticket and his change were pushed out to him , he snatched them and fairly ran . `` Bolted as if the police were after him , '' reflected the agent , who did not sell many tickets and so had time to take a personal interest in the purchasers thereof . `` I 've seen that youngster before , though I ca n't recollect where . He 's got a most fearful determined look . '' Chester drew an audible sigh of relief when the train left the station . He was fairly off now and felt that he could defy even curious railway officials . It was not his first train ride , for Mrs. Elwell had once taken him to Belltown to get an aching tooth extracted , but it was certainly his first under such exhilarating circumstances , and he meant to enjoy it . To be sure , he was very hungry , but that , he reflected , was only what he would probably be many times before he made his fortune , and it was just as well to get used to it . Meanwhile , it behooved him to keep his eyes open . On the road from Roxbury to Belltown there was not much to be seen that morning that Chester did not see . The train reached Belltown about noon . He did not mean to stop long there -- it was too near Upton . From the conductor on the train , he found that a boat left Belltown for Montrose at two in the afternoon . Montrose was a hundred miles from Upton , and Chester thought he would be safe there . To Montrose , accordingly , he decided to go , but the first thing was to get some dinner . He went into a grocery store and bought some crackers and a bit of cheese . He had somewhere picked up the idea that crackers and cheese were about as economical food as you could find for adventurous youths starting out on small capital . He found his way to the only public square Belltown boasted , and munched his food hungrily on a bench under the trees . He would go to Montrose and there find something to do .
Later on he would gradually work his way out West , where there was more room XXXXX an ambitious small boy to expand and grow .
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