[Only An Irish Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr.]@TWC D-Link book
Only An Irish Boy

CHAPTER XXIX
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He asked me if we kept open after twelve.

Did you want to find him ?" "I should like to have the police find him," said Andy.
"How is that ?" asked the clerk, surprised.
"He has robbed me." "Did you leave your door unlocked ?" "No; but there was a door between our rooms.

He opened it, and stole a pocketbook from the pocket of my coat." "While you were asleep ?" "Yes; but I awoke just in time to see him go through the door." "How much money was there in it ?" "That's the joke of it," said Andy, laughing; "there was no money at all, only some folds of paper.

He got hold of the wrong pocketbook." Thereupon, he told the story of the "drop game," of which he came near being a victim, and what a useful turn the bogus treasure had done him.
"There's the right pocketbook," he said, in conclusion.

"I wish you would take care of it for me till to-morrow.


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