DEAN DUNHAM;
OR,
THE WATERFORD MYSTERY.
CHAPTER I.
ADIN DUNHAM SURPRISES HIS WIFE.
"I've been looking forward to this day for weeks, Sarah," said Adin Dunham, as he rose from the breakfast-table on a certain Wednesday morning in the early part of June.
"Why, father, what do you mean?" asked Mrs. Dunham curiously.
"Because to-day I am to receive a thousand dollars—a thousand dollars in hard cash," answered her husband in a tone of exultation.
"Well, I declare!" ejaculated his wife in amazement. "Who on earth is going to give you a thousand dollars?"
"No one is going to give it to me; it's my own."
"How strangely you do talk, Adin Dunham! You ain't out of your mind, be you?"