[The Trials of the Soldier’s Wife by Alex St. Clair Abrams]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trials of the Soldier’s Wife CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND 2/13
See here," he continued, searching his pockets, and emptying them of whatever they contained.
"Don't you see dat de monish is not in my pockets.
It vas on de safe und unless somebody removed it, it never could have gone away." "You should be certain, sir, before you insist that you placed it on the safe," remarked the clerk.
"Look in the draw of your desk, it may have been placed there as well as any other place." With a gesture of impatience Mr.Swartz opened the drawers of the desk, and removing everything they contained searched carefully among the large number of papers for the missing package.
It was not there however, and turning to the clerk who was standing near by, he pointed to the table to indicate the fact of its absence among the papers he had taken from the drawers. "I told you it vash not tere," he remarked.
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