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The Catspaw
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two, because I had to take some medicine every three hours, and just as we put on our hats I saw that it was time for my pills."
The judge smiled.
''There seems to be some mistake. Surely, all these worthy citizens could
present to Rokane the next day, for she had told him it was her birthday. The fortunes of the Milville depositors had nothing to do with his ability to give her a parcel of securities valued at more than twenty thousand dollars. Bonwit was really courting Rokane, and this had always been his idea of the way to treat a fiancee. As for Rokane, she had no sooner recovered from her surprise at the richness of the gift than she set about evolving a wav to realize
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In the end the '"degree" came home to him and a lengthy document was secured from him
by the officers.
not be wrong about having been with the prisoner, especially our good sheriff here, who is so careful of his medicine. I can't see how I can hold the gentleman. Discharged !"
The officers looked at one another in wonder, and thought that the whole affair was very strange ; but in the face of what had happened they kept their silence.
Another who was puzzled was Bonwit, the bank president ; but the affair did not deter him from making a pretty
on them. It was the old. old trick of borrowing money on a package of bonds, and then, when the securities have been examined and the money about to be paid, to substitute for them a package of which only the top and bottom ones are genuine. Rokane selected Major Holbrook as the victim, called on him in his office and ''did the trick" as readily as if it had just been discovered.
It seemed to her that fortune was favoring her in finances, but not in