The $500 Check — page 232: what you’re looking at

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AN ADVERTISEMENT. 913 ance was wholly unaccounted for. That made it seem like a cunning conspiracy, as undoubt- edly it was.’’ ‘* Were the other bonds never traced ?”’ ‘*T understand not. No list of the numbers had been kept, and, not being registered, they could easily be sold. Your father thinks that upon these the present prosperity of Albert Marlowe was built up.”’ ‘* How are we to prove that ?”’ ‘Tt will be difficult. One thing is abso- lutely essential. We must find this Ralph Harding, and persuade him, if we can, to ex- onerate your father and place the guilt where it properly belongs.”’ ‘* Does father know where to find Harding ?”’ ‘*No; if he did, the greatest difficulty in our way would be removed.’’ ‘* Then I don’t see that we can doanything,”’ said Bert, disappointed. ‘‘The task is difficult, but not impossible. All we know is, that only two months after the robbery Harding disappeared. It was re- ported that he went to the West, but this was by no means certain. From that day to this, Gomicboo <S) (E(0) m