"It was one of five hundred dollars, and--"
"Did it have a--anything pinned to it?" exclaimed Betty.
"It did--a note. Wait, I can tell you what it said on it." He hesitated a
moment and then repeated word for word the writing on the note pinned to
the bill the girls had picked up. "But I don't see how you know this!" he
added, wonderingly.
"We know--because we found your five hundred dollar bill!" exclaimed
Betty.
CHAPTER XXIV
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The man stared at the girls as if he could not believe what Betty had
said. A strange look came over his face.
"If this is a joke, please drop it," he began. "I am almost crazy as it
is. I don't know what I am doing. I--"
"It isn't a joke!" declared Betty. "It may sound strange, but it's all
true. We did find your bill, under the railroad bridge in Deepdale. It's
in my father's safe now."
"That's great--it's fine. I'd given it up long ago. I advertised, and put
up a notice in the post-office, and--"
"Yes, my mother wrote me about it," said Betty. "But she did not give
your address, for some naughty boys tore it off the notice."
"And do you really think someone tried to rob you?" asked Mollie.
"I don't know what to think," frankly admitted the young man.
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