When he returned, it is needless to say that it was not in Clip's boat.
He opened his desk, to enter a business transaction in his account-book, when he made a startling discovery.
The receipt had disappeared!
CHAPTER VIII. WOLVERTON'S DISMAY.
Wolverton uttered a cry of dismay when he found that the receipt had disappeared. With trembling fingers he turned over a pile of papers in the hope of finding the important paper.
"Where on earth can it be?" he asked himself, with a troubled face.
He set himself to consider when he had seen it last and where he had placed it.
"It must be in the desk somewhere," he decided, and resumed his search. Those of my readers who have mislaid any article can picture to themselves his increasing perplexity as the missing paper failed to turn up.