“It don’t make no difference. Raymond can’t be teched, nohow. Anybody in Kentown will tell you the same thing.”
“That’s a nice state of affairs,” cried Frank. “A man like that to terrorize the whole neighborhood!”
“Well, you see, Raymond has lots of relations around here, an’ they all stick up for him. If it wasn’t for that, somethin’ might be did, although I doubt it, bless me if I don’t.”
“Thomas is right,” put in Mrs. Larchmond. “If your money is safe, you better go about your affairs and say nuthin’.”
“Oh, the money is safe enough,” returned Frank. “I grabbed that up and put it in my pocket the first thing.”
As the young man spoke, he put his hand into his coat pocket to make sure that the eighteen hundred dollars were still there. Then he turned pale.
“It’s gone!” he gasped.
CHAPTER XXVII
BOB MAKES A FIND
Every one in the sitting-room was astonished. Bob sprang to his feet.
“You are sure it is gone?” he demanded.