 
 <prompt> **CHAPTER XXIII.**

**STRANGE DISCOVERIES.**

Frank Massanet bin dey surprise and happy wen Richard come back to work again.

"You get beta friend for Mr. Joyce," e talk wen the boy tell am wetin the leather merchant don do. "One person like dat dey worth pass one thousand of the common ones."

During the afternoon, Earle Norris get reason to come up go the stock-room. E shock wen e see Richard dey work.

"Why, I think say you don go holiday!" e exclaim.

"So I do-- for one hour," Richard reply, and without any other talk, e continue with im work.

"Why, I think--" Norris start.

"Wetin you think?" Frank ask, as e move forward.

"Why I--I----" Norris stammer. "Wetin be your own for this matter?" e add rudely.

"You think say dem don sack am," Frank talk. "You don dey try your best to make dem sack am."

"Who talk am?" Norris ask, but e turn small small pale as e talk. "Na me talk am. I no understand your plan, but na wetin you dey try do; and I dey warn you say you better stop am."

E no too dey common for Frank Massanet to talk like this, but e clear say e mean every word wen e talk.

"You dey make mistake," Norris reply, no too sabi how to answer. "But e dey natural say you go dey support your mother's boarders. Dem dey help support the family, I suppose."

And with this final talk, the shipping-clerk rush go down.

For middle of the afternoon, Mr. Mann send for Richard and ask the boy to follow am go one office for lower Broadway. <response>: 1. Na who wan see Richard?
2. Wen?
3. Wetin e want make Richard do?
4. Wia?
5. Na which mama get renters?
6. Na who be one of dem?
7. Na who come back go work?
8. How Frank dey feel about am?
9. Earle surprise to see am?
10. Wetin e claim say e think say happen to Richard?
11. Wetin e really think?
12. Why?
13. Na who accuse am of that?
14. E deny am?
15. Wetin happen to im face?
16. Frank threaten Norris?
17. Frank dey always talk like that?
18. Mr. Joyce na who?
19. Na who talk say e na good friend?
20. To who? 