No one spoke until after he had been absent several minutes, and then Teddy asked, with a long-drawn sigh:
"Do you think he will come out all right, Mr. Sweet?"
"That's hard to say, for I don't know how much proof they may have against him. It's his business that has done a great deal toward inducing a magistrate to issue the warrant, for once a man shows himself to be a swindler, anything else can readily be believed of him."
"But what about his money?" Dan asked.
"That is to be handed over to Teddy."
"What have I got to do with it?" the boy asked, in amazement.
"He told us that as plainly as he dared to talk before the officer, and we'll count it out, after which his stock in trade shall be buried, for I want nothing to do with it."
CHAPTER XX.
A PROPOSITION.