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124 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. known about it, but she was old now and not very clear in mind. Somewhat discouraged, Dick rather hopelessly asked if there was nothing in her possession which would throw hght upon the subject. Mrs. Jenkins thought a momens and then replied: ‘*There is a tin box at home that father used to keep his papers in. We've got it yet. I haven't looked into it in many a day, but all the papers are in it yet, excepting the deed for the Newark house, which was taken out when we sold the house. I will look when I go home.”’ Here at least wasachance. The Powers possibilities were not exhausted yet. So he earnestly requested her to do so, and, giving her his address in writing, asked her to inform him as promptly as she could as to what came of her search. Then taking from his pocket a roll of bills, he handed her a sum of money so large as to make her eyes glitter with delight. It occurred to him that as thoroughly as he had questioned her, still, had Mr. Stanton been present, he might have been more successful, so he proposed that she should wait for Mr. Stanton’s return. To this she energetically demurred, saying that she must return by the six o’clock train, since her hus- band would be awaiting her upon its arrival. Con- sulting his watch, Dick found she could not reach the station in time if she were to walk, so he hastened to the stable and saw that a carriage was prepared to take her thither. As he helped her into the carriage, he saw Mr. and Mrs. Stanton come up over the brow of the hill in the distance, but as time pressed he could not wait for them. He urged the driver to hasten to the depot. As the carriage rattled off, he saw Mrs. Stanton stop, as if her attention had suddenly been arrested, and then run forward to intercept the carriage by a short cut. He realized that Mrs. Stanton had at last found, Comicbooks.€© 3