“The journey is an expensive one. If you need two or three hundred dollars I will loan it to you cheerfully.”
“Thank you very much, but I have more money saved up than I shall require.”
“I see you are careful and provident. Well, Chester, I wish you every success.”
“I am sure of that, Mr. Fairchild. By the way, I hear that your old bookkeeper is in Oregon or Washington.”
“Who told you?”
“Felix. Have you any message for him if I happen to meet him?”
“Say that I have no intention of prosecuting him. If he is ever able I shall be glad to have him return the money he took from me. As to punishment, I am sure he has been punished enough by his enforced flight and sense of wrongdoing.”
CHAPTER XXXVI.
A GREAT SURPRISE.