A Daughter of Delilah — page 207: what you’re looking at

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198 RUN TO EARTH. CHAPTER XVII. RUN TO EARTH. Minnie Alston heard the story that her brother had to relate that evening with tingling ears. | ‘‘Oh, Edgar, it is too terrible!’’ she said. ‘‘There must be some mistake. I cannot believe that papa would be so silly—so weak. I have heard him speak many times in tones of withering contempt of men who have done some wrong for the sake of a woman. And, then, he is so old! There must be some mistake, Edgar!’ ‘“T only hope that it may be so,’’ her brother replied. ‘‘Never mind, sissy, he shall be rescued, and then he is entirely at our mercy! Amidall these clouds there is a bright ray of sunshine!”’ He spoke cheerily, but his mind was filled with vague fears. The foolish old man’s life might be at stake. It was late before any news came from Billings, and consisted of a note delivered by a special messenger. It ran thus: ‘DEAR S1iR:—The check for twenty thousand dollars is in your father’s handwriting without a doubt. It is made payable to self or bearer, and was presented to the teller by a stranger two days since. Payment was refused, as the bearer failed to get identified. The following day the check came in again through the Union Bank of New Jer- sey. Upon examining the office check-book after you left to-day, I discovered that a blank check, numbered 2,007, had been abstracted, No one except myself and the prin- ~: Gomicdooks (EC)