The Dugdale Millions — page 86: what you’re looking at

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76 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS about Edmund Dugdale—Barber, and he’s dead, and the Brooklyn woman. I got out of Barber all he knew. Dennis got out of the Brooklyn woman all she knew. Neither of them knew what was done with the ehilda He paused and looked significantly from one to the other. The young man threw his cigar away, and said irritably: On, vive uomt, Give tout: ’ ‘*Then what’s to hinder us from finding a Dugdale anyhow?’’ ‘*The devil,’’ said Bob and Moore in one breath. Ransom watched them narrowly as the suggestion slowly penetrated to their minds with all its meanings and possibilities. ‘“‘It isn’t so hard to do,’’ he said, after he had waited until his startling idea had had time to find secure lodgment. ‘‘There is no one to tell them how Dug- dale looked. ‘The last time any one saw him to know who he was, he was two years old. Why, you’ve got the whole game in your hands! You can dicker to keep him from knowing who he ls, or you can dicker to get him to refuse to be the heir, for a good round sum, or you can put him forward to take the whole of fhe-iroperty. ‘“But,’’ cried the young man, “‘how are you going to prove him to be Dugdale? They aren’t going to take him just because we say he is.”’ ‘“That’s easy enough,’’ interjected Moore. ‘‘A few documents can be fixed up that ‘ud settle that. What is difficult is to secure yourself against the real Dug- dale, if he’s alive, turning up some time.”’ ‘““Now you've hit it,’’ said Ransom. ‘‘So you see we've got to hunt for Powers, and so whether we find him dead or alive, it’s all the same to us, but we’ve got to be sure.”’ ‘It’s a big scheme,"’ said the young man, awfully risky.’’ 66 and Comicbockk C@ on Manic,» " % SP a aa the ete