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“If it comes handy to you, I’d just as lieve.”
“Here it is, then,” she replied, giving him a ringing box on the ear.
With a laugh she sprung through the gate, which they had just reached, and hurried into the house, leaving Will completely crestfallen.
She did not reappear, but sent a servant with the package which Will was to take back. He trudged off reflectively toward the cars.
“Got served right, I s’pose,” he said, “for I was imperdent. But I ain’t done with the gal yet. Bet I give her as good as she sent.”
CHAPTER V.
UNDER LOCK AND KEY.
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“I do not know what to make of this,” said Mr. Leonard, as he sat with a bank-book and a package of canceled checks in his hand. “I am positive that my account is not overdrawn. This settlement makes me five hundred dollars short, where I should have at least one thousand dollars to my credit.”
“It is very strange,” said Mr. Wilson. “We have never found an error in our account with the Mechanic’s Bank before.”
“They paid my check without hesitation?”