"What have you done to Mr. Wolverton, mother?" asked Bob. "He looked savage enough to bite my head off, and wouldn't even speak to me."
"Robert, I have some bad news to tell you. Mr. Wolverton tells me that your father didn't pay him the interest on the day of his death."
"I believe he tells a falsehood," said Bob, quickly.
"But he says, with some show of reason, if the interest was paid, why didn't your father take a receipt?"
"Can no receipt be found?"
"No; I searched your father's wallet in vain."
"What is a receipt, missis?" asked Clip.
"It's a piece of paper with writing on it, Clip," said the widow, adjusting her explanations to Clip's intelligence.
"Golly! I saw de old man take a piece of paper from Massa Burton's pocket after he was dead—when he was a-lyin' on the ground."
"Say that again, Clip," said Bob, eagerly.