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? "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. This one was for five thousand dollars. |