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Bates laughed now

"Oh, I was the ghost! I went through there occasionally

to stihtyou out-I'd

like to knohether Sister Theresa owes you any

eyes

"You scoundrel, you infernal scoundrel, Sister

Theresa never borrowed a cent of me in her life! And

you have e choked him

He told Bates to close the door of the steel chest, and

then turned to 's?" he deht the packet

"Gentleths

in this affair How entle when you arrived,"

replied Larry, grinning

"The sheriff got all his men off the preood It was all a great randfather turned to Pickering

"Pickering, what a contemptible scoundrel you are!

I lent you that three hundred thousand dollars to buy

securities to give you better standing in your railroad

enterprises, and the last tiot me to

release the collateral so you could raise money to buy

ht you'd find and destroy the notes and that would

end the transaction; and if you had been sht have had theo to Jack If he shows anythem he's not the boy I think he is"