[The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Pools Mystery CHAPTER VIII 2/15
The money, he informed me, was from the proceeds of the bonds he had sold. He showed me at the same time several letters from his brokers establishing beyond a doubt that the story he had told was true.
As to the stolen bonds, their whereabouts was as much a mystery as ever, and Rad appeared to take not the slightest interest in the matter.
Since the detective had been summoned, he had washed his hands of all responsibility. I think it was the morning after Clancy's departure that Solomon handed me a pale blue envelope bearing in the upper left-hand corner the device of the Post-Dispatch.
I laughed as I ripped it open; I had almost forgotten Terry's existence.
It contained a characteristic pencil scrawl slanting across a sheet of yellow copy paper. "Arnold Crosby, Esq. "Turnips Farm, Pumpkin Corners, Va. "_Dear Sir_: "Enclosed please find clipping.
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