For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 144: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXVIII. A PAINFUL SLTUATION. _ To say that Sam was disappointed would be describing his feelings very mildly, but in an instant the discom- _ fiture was forgotten in a new sensation—he had suddenly thought of Miss Marvin’s good fortune. . Suppose she had kept the box and eaten the candy! The thought frightened Sam out of all further idea of secrecy. 3 _ In an instant he had related how he came by the candy, and the clerks were looking at each other with question- ing glances. “*Tain’t the first box of candy she’s had sent her,” said one. “I heard Fairbanks say that she got them often from Jim Denton.” “Yes, she’s cut Mag Brady out for good in that di- rection. Well, why shouldn’t she? She’s new and as pretty as a picture!” 3 “But, surely, Jim Denton didn’t send this box,” said the detective. “If he’s sweet on the girl he wouldn’t want to poison her.”’ “Well, hardly, Tyler,” laughed another of the lunchers. } “Perhaps he intended it for Mag,” suggested another. “Tf he’s tired of the girl he may be trying to fix her.” “Pshaw! He doesn’t have to resort to such measures as that! What could a poor girl do to injure Jim Den- ton? No, Tyler, you’ll have to look somewhere else for your poisoner, I reckon,” said one of the oldest men in the whole establishment. } ; “Who gave you the box in the first place?’ asked the detective of Sam. “I mean, who told you to give it to Miss Marvin?” Sam spoke up promptly, for he had nothing to hide. ‘‘A kid gave it to me at the door—a messenger boy— who said he was in a tearing hurry.” i: Gomichooks.com