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 for an ambitious small boy to expand and grow . Chester dreamed some dazzling dreams as he sat there on the bench under the Belltown chestnuts . Passers-by , if they noticed him at all , saw merely a rather small , poorly clad boy , with a great many freckles , a square jaw and shrewd , level-gazing grey eyes . But this same lad was mapping out a very brilliant future for himself as people passed him heedlessly by . He would get out West , somehow or other , some time or other , and make a fortune . Then , perhaps , he would go back to Upton for a visit and shine in his splendour before all his old neighbours . It all seemed very easy and alluring , sitting there in the quiet little Belltown square . Chester , you see , possessed imagination . That , together with the crackers and cheese , so cheered him up that he felt ready for anything . He was aroused from a dream of passing Aunt Harriet by in lofty scorn and a glittering carriage , by the shrill whistle of the boat . Chester pocketed his remaining crackers and cheese and his visions also , and was once more his alert , wide-awake self .
He had inquired the way XXXXX the wharf from the grocer , so he found no difficulty in reaching it .
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