Well, here's the yarn, Mrs.Armstrong.

It don't make me out any too everlastin' brilliant.

A grown man that would shove that amount of money into his overcoat pocket and then go sasshayin' from Wapatomac to Orham ain't the kind I'd recommend to ship as cow steward on a cattle boat, to say nothin' of president of a bank.

But confessin's good for the soul, they say, even if it does make a feller feel like a fool, so here goes.

I did just that thing." He went on to tell of his trip to Wapatomac, his interview with Sage, his visit to the windmill shop, his discovery that four hundred of the fourteen hundred had disappeared.