What if Nat had a stronger reaction to being accused of stealing and ran away, will they be able to get him to come back or will he forgive the accusers on his own.

After the true culprit in the affair of Tommy's missing money is revealed, Dan and Mrs Jo have a heart-to-heart chat, in which Dan talks about his difficult life before Plumfield. What if he weren't as well-adjusted as he let on? Ties in with The Fiddler and the Fire-Brand, though both stories stand on their own. [Canon Compliant]

'And yet, he sometimes wondered where Dan was now, whether he had enough to eat and where he slept at night. Dan was tough, but he was the best and only friend Nat had ever had.' A series of seven vignettes about the unlikely friendship between Plumfield's newest boys: the fiddler and the fire-brand, otherwise known as Nathaniel Blake and Daniel Kean. [Canon Compliant]

After a daring rescue, Dan begins to find his place in the Bhaer household.