"I tell you I've lost four hundred dollars of the fourteen hundred I told you I collected from Sylvester Sage over to Wapatomac this mornin'.

I had three packages of bills, two of five hundred dollars each and one of four hundred.

The two five hundred packages were in the inside pocket of my overcoat where I put 'em.

But the four hundred one's gone.
What I want to know is, did it drop out when I took off my coat here in the shop?
Do you get that through your head, finally ?" It had gotten through.

Jed now looked as troubled as his friend.
He rose hastily and went over to the pile of boards upon which Captain Sam had thrown his coat upon entering the shop on his previous visit that day.