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"No, I told her I'd engaged a gardener--and that's all there was about it"

He came nearer to her "Dale!" he murmured in a tense voice "You know I didn't take that money!" he said with boyish simplicity

All the loyalty of first-love was in her answer

"Of course! I believe in you absolutely!" she said He caught her in his ar memory of the predicament in which he stood, the hunt already on his trail, ca one of her hands

"But--the police here!" he sta away "What does that mean?"

Dale swiftly informed him of the situation

"Aunt Cornelia says people have been trying to break into this house for days--at night"

Brooks ran his hand through his hair in a gesture of bewilderment Then he seemed to catch at a hope

"What sort of people?" he queried sharply

Dale was puzzled "She doesn't know"

The excitement in her lover's manner caht along," he said, thudding one fist softly in the pal has been selling those securities forthem into cash And somebody knows about it, and knows that that money is hidden here Don't you see? Your Aunt Cornelia has crabbed the ga here"