Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 275: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 269 Everybody crowded around as I pulled out the small Bible and laid it on the table. Mrs. Jimmerson placed the candle in the most advantageous position, and the little Jimmersons opened their eyes and mouths to their widest extent. There were two envelopes, yellow with age, both sealed with a large daub of red wax and both of which had been broken. Amid a death-like silence I extracted a folded slip of parchment paper and read the label, written in a cramped hand : “The last will and testament of John 8, ‘Halford !” “What under thie sun,’ began Bob, but stopped as I opened it and continued : ‘Being ina sound state of mind .and health, 1, John 8. Halford, do hereby give, devise and bequeath to my only daughter, Geraldine Halford, all my property, both real and personal, wherever found or how- | ever situated, including twenty-three thou- sand dollars in United States four per cent Government bonds, ete., ete. Said bonds and allrights and titles belonging to me have been placed in the hands of one Claribel R. Simpson——’”’ Eomichbooks:co