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Later, when Roy arrived at the McAllister's house, he asked for a pen, paper and envelopes Over the course of several weeks, Roy wrote letters to multiple postmasters Roy wrote to towns called Pine, Sho, Heber, Payson, and ing co Roy's letters, he received a reply froaard, Arizona The writer indicated to Roy that they were logging Ponderosa pines Roy i if they would be interested in selling the timber to him to build a home When he received their reply, they kindly explained they could s into lumber, or if Roy preferred, they would sell him the whole felled trees and ship his purchase choice by rail car This was exciting news for Roy

The following day Roy walked to the bank They had just co their new establishment and Roy was astounded to see the structure was made of brick and the new vault was quite secure The bank had used a product called concrete to encase the vault Roy visited the bank in hopes of obtaining a loan to rebuild his house

"Welco very well Fully recovered have you?"

Roy nodded "Almost"

"Great, what can we do for you today?"

"Well, as you know I' married soon to Sara Johansson"

"Yes, I heard-an excellent woratulations to you both Roy"

"Thank you, Grover It see it bigger for ht I add, we cannot thank you enough for eli our town of those Dixon men Very nasty business those men were But,have a new bank thanks to them"

"Well, I need to talk about a loan Grover"

"A loan? But why?"

"Well, I get a pension fros here in the bank, but I' to need so co to sell s and lumber and ship it by rail to our town"

"Roy, you don't know do you?"

"Know about what Grover?"

Grover Matting leaned back in his chair and s about Grover? What reward?"

"Well, actually there were tards There was a total of eight thousand dollars in rewards fro That would be you, who accoo had a five thousand dollar reward for the capture of the robbers plus a five thousand dollar reward for the return of the Fargo money"