About
noon
`` This morning , '' he said , `` I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars , and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street . If I had only known you were going in , I would have sent it by you . '' Herbert felt gratified at this manifestation of confidence , especially as he had so recently been charged with robbing the post office , but did not interrupt Mr. Graham , who continued : `` As soon as Eben was fairly gone , I began to feel sorry I sent him , for he got into extravagant ways when he was in Boston before , and he had been teasing me to give him money enough to go out West with . About noon I discovered that he had taken fifty dollars more than the amount I intrusted to him , and then I could n't rest till I was on my way to Boston to find out the worst . I went to the house on Milk Street and found they had seen nothing of Eben . Then I knew what had happened . The graceless boy has robbed his father of a hundred and fifty dollars , and is probably on his way West by this time . ''