Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 276: what you’re looking at

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266 IN THE SUNK LANDS. ‘Oh!’ burst from the rest of the Quar- tette. “To be conveyed, with the said Geraldine Halford, to Memphis, Tenn., to be placed in charge of ——” There the will abruptly left off, signed, but neither dated or recorded. ‘‘ Well, that beats me,” said Joe, turning it over in his hands. ‘‘ He must have drawn it up himself, Evidently the one Claribel R. Simpson was either the sister or the wife of our highway- man. ‘And I suppose the twenty-three thou- sand dollars in Government bonds has gone — the way our fourteen hundred would have gone had not that accident happened,” remarked Treve. ‘Well, where is this Geraldine Halford ?”’ I wanted to know. Joe gave me a peculiar look and elevated. his eyebrows at Patty across the table. ‘You don’t mean,” I stammered. He nodded his head emphatically. Mechanically I drew out the contents of the other envelope. A cry of astonishment went up. With feverish haste I counted twenty-three thou- Eomichbooks.co mn