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The Borough Treasurer

CHAPTER X
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They found the bank-notes which Kitely got at the Bank yesterday evening, and a quantity of letters and papers that we presume had been in that empty pocket-book.
They were all hidden in a hole in the thatch of Harborough's shed." "Where are they ?" asked Brereton.
"Down at the police-station--the superintendent has them," answered the detective.

"He'd show you them, sir, if you care to go down." Brereton went off to the police-station at once and was shown into the superintendent's office without delay.

That official immediately drew open a drawer of his desk and produced a packet folded in brown paper.
"I suppose this is what you want to see, Mr.Brereton," he said.

"I guess you've heard about the discovery?
Shoved away in a rat-hole in the thatch of Harborough's shed these were, sir--upon my honour, I don't know what to make of it! You'd have thought that a man of Harborough's sense and cleverness would never have put these things there, where they were certain to be found." "I don't believe Harborough did put them there," said Brereton.

"But what are they ?" The superintendent motioned his visitor to sit by him and then opened the papers out on his desk.
"Not so much," he answered.


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