"Confusion!" he muttered. "Look at this!" and he threw the paper into the fire.
"What does it mean?" asked his accomplice, bewildered.
"It means that we have been fooled—tricked! They have filled the wallet with this trash, in order to deceive us."
"But are you sure that they had any money?"
"Sure? Why, I saw it with my own eyes. Didn't you, Sarah? Didn't the man pull out a thick roll of bills when he paid the five dollars he agreed upon?"
"Yes," answered the woman, reluctantly.
"There was no mistake about that. The money was real, fast enough. There must have been two or three hundred dollars."
"Where could he have put it, then?"
"I don't know."
"Why should he play such a trick upon you?"