Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 283: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 273 placed his spectacles and stared at the money I placed before him. “ Why—why, where did this come from ?”’ “That is the money we thought was burnt,” I explained. ‘T_T don’t understand.” — ‘‘ Neither do I, unless I placed it in last year’s books by mistake and left Davis’s consignment out for Mr. Jimmerson.”’ ‘Which Mike burnt up and which ac- counts for our not being able to find it. Quite aremarkable incident. Well, well!” ‘‘ If Jimmerson had called and I had given him the consignment papers instead of the money, I would have been placed in just as bad a light,” I told myself, as I returned to work. ‘If I had not been so worked up over the hunt it would not have happened.” That evening the X. T. C. Quartette met in the club room for the first time after their arrival home. Of course the guns and rifles had to be polished and put in their respective places, as well asthe rest of the accouterments. I told of my good fortune, and then Bob sald : “The X. T. C. Quartette seems to have 18 EGoOmichbooks:.c