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192 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. ‘distrusts and suspects me. He doesn’t know what to take hold of, but he suspects something, and we can expect a fight from him.” ‘We must silence him then,’ grimly. “ Nothing violent,” protested Pierson quickly. “If there is to be anything of that kind, I’m out of the matter at once.”’ “No, no,” put in Moore. ‘ Nothing of that kind.” ‘There are more ways of silencing him than cutting off his wind, isn’t there?” asked Ransom contemp- tuously. “You can make it worth his while to drop the business, can’t you?” “You can’t get enough money to make him do that, Ransom,” said Bob quietly. ‘Well, there 1s some way,’ returned Ransom. “T’ll make it my business to look after my friend Mason.” While the precious quartette were scheming and Ransom was devising some plan to neutralize Dick as a suspicious and dangerous person to them, Dick was devoting himself to his duties at the office, long neg- lected. He had returned to them, on the whole, ina contented frame of mind. He was under no deubt that the meaning of the writing of the note was that in some way Mr. Hetlow had discovered his love for Bessie and had threatened to deny him the house. And while that seemed to promise obstruction to his suit, the fact which was important to him was that Bessie had shown a deep interest in himself and his well being and had promised to see him and explain. There was such assurance of her love in this that Mr. Hetlow’s opposition seemed insignificant beside it. So he took up his duties quite cheerfully. While he had been devoting himself to the search for young Dugdale, the interests of his department had been largely confided to an assistant. Growing out of some differences between this assistant and remarked Ransom <= Comicbocl< C@ 3}