[A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookA Waif of the Plains CHAPTER VII 16/25
The bank had always occupied that building.
Was there not some mistake in the number? No; the name, number, and street had been deeply engrafted in the boy's recollection.
Stop! it might be the name of a customer who had given his address at the bank.
The clerk who made this suggestion disappeared promptly to make inquiries in the counting-room. Clarence, with a rapidly beating heart, awaited him.
The clerk returned. There was no such name on the books.
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