The $500 Check — page 200: what you’re looking at

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THE MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE PANTRY. 181 it if that was going to happen,’’ observed Silas, not without reason. ‘‘I don’t think it could have been a very desperate ruffian, if he con- tented himself with taking bread and mulk.’’ “He may come again to-night,’’ suggested Mrs. Wilson. “T hope not,” said Silas fervently. ‘‘ I—I couldn’t sleep if I thought so.’’ ‘We must get to the bottom of this,’’ went on his wife resolutely. ‘‘?m not willing to have such goings on in my house.’’ “How are you going to do it, Sophia? Probably the thief’s miles off by this time.” ‘He may be, or he may not be!”’ said Mrs. Wilson in an oracular tone. ‘*T’ve heard of folks walking in their sleep,” she added, after a pause. “You don’t mean me?’’ asked Silas. ‘No; if you did it ’'d have had a chance to find out in forty years. Do you ever walk in - your sleep?’’ she asked, turning suddenly to Bert. | The question was so unexpected that he could not help changing color, and this served to increase Mrs. Wilson’s dawning suspicions. Gomichook