Two Boys and a Fortune

I won’t tell you everything, began Roy, with a quick glance up at the trestle, but first I’ll have to go back a little and say that almost as far back as I can remember we’ve lived in that house you can see down yonder with the peaked roof. We had only about enough money to keep us comfortable, for father died when I was a little fellow, and there were five of us children. But we had good times and I was looking forward to the future when I would be a man and Rex and I– that’s my twin brother– could give mother some of the luxuries with what we should earn, for I expected that by that time Sydney would be married and have a home of his own. You’re not bored listening to all this, are you? There’s a more exciting part coming?