"You were holding out on us," said the farmer. "You made me lose a fifty-dollar note."
"How is that?"
"That lawyer promised it to me if we found Ted, here. And now I don't suppose he'll give a cent."
"Anybody would be mighty foolish to give fifty dollars for me," broke in the man who appeared to be the missing Theodore Chester.
"What do they want you for, anyway?" Hiram demanded.
"I don't know."
"Do you know?" Hiram asked the original Orrin Post.
"That lawyer did not tell me. But if this fellow, Ted Chester, hadn't left me flat—"
"If you hadn't put me out when I was taken sick, I suppose you would have got the reward," said the accused.
"But why should anybody offer a reward for you?" Hiram asked him again.