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"My dear old typewriter!" gasped Bones "My dear old !"

"You can leave this picture, madam----"

"Miss," itation he

could not resist the temptation to interrupt

"You can leave this picture, Miss Stegg," said the girl coolly "Mr

Tibbetts wants to add it to his collection"

Miss Stegg said nothing

She had risen to her feet, her eyes fixed on the girl's face, and, with

no word of protest or explanation, she turned and walked swiftly fro the temporary suspension

of the undulatory one, they looked at one another, or, rather, they looked

at the girl, who, for her part, was exaraph She took

a little knife from the desk before Bones and inserted it into the

thick cardboard mount, and ripped off one of the layers of cardboard

And so Bones's photograph was exposed, shorn of all raph was a cheque on the

Third National Bank, which was a blank cheque and bearing Bones's

undeniable signature in the bottoh the se