Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 144: what you’re looking at

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140 EVERET MAKES A NEW ACQUAINTANCE. the time the girl’s mother died, I should judge, or a little betore; soit is evident he did not mean siie should have anytbing until he was gone. How strange! these papers have tain here all these years and no one the wiser tor 1t, while, of course, the stock has been accumulating all tnat time. itis remarkable that the directors of the banks represented have not taken measures to find the holder of the certificates. Possibly they have, and failed to do so. I wonder father hus not been applied to; but, then, Robert Dale was such a secretive character, he may never have revealed his residence, and it would have been a very easy matter to give orders to let the stock accumulate until called for.” He fell to musing again over his wonderful discovery, until all at once he gave a violent start, and a vivid flush mounted to his brow. “Blast-it!’ he muttered, “if my theory is correct all this money belongs to Geoffrey Dale, What in thunder: am I going to do about it, anyway ?” JHAPTER XXIII. EVERET MAKES A NEW ACQUAINTANCE. Everet Mapleson spent the next week mostly in hunt- ing and fishing, occupying, however, a portion of one day in looking over the Hermitage again, although without the slightest return for his labor in finding anything new. _At the end of that time he began to grow very restless, and a feeling of depression and loneliness took possession of him. A few days more of the same kind of life and he de- clared he could stand it no longer. Still, he could not make up his mind what he really wanted to do, and was miserable and discontented. He would have been glad to go to Brooklyn, ascertain where Gladys had gone for the summer, and then follow. But he reasoned that Geoffrey would be with her this year, and knowing it would be simply maddening to see them together, he felt it was best that he should keep away. But something he must do to kill time and amuse him- self; he had an unaccountable distaste for gay society, and yet longed for some excitement. cComiclboooks. con