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Cast Adrift

CHAPTER II
18/29

Your mother-in-law is a trump.

If she will, she will, you may depend on't." Freeling was unusually excited.

Granger looked the note over and over in a way that seemed to annoy his partner, who said, presently, with a shade of ill-nature in his voice, "What's the matter?
Isn't the signature all right ?" "That's right enough," returned the young man, after looking at it closely.

"But I can't understand it." "You will when you see the proceeds passed to our accounted in bank--ha! ha!" Granger looked up at his partner quickly, the laugh had so strange a sound, but saw nothing new in his face.
In about a month Freeling had in his possession another note, signed by Mr.Dinneford and drawn to the order of George Granger.

This one was for five thousand dollars.


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