“Don’t make any deal with the man from Maine who demands $15,000. Have him arrested at once. Particulars later. Answer.”
The name of the station agent was attached. But noon brought no answer; nor yet evening. A second message was dispatched, and a third at midnight.
Morning came, and still there was no reply.
Jerry waited impatiently about the telegraph tower at the station. Then he went to dinner. As he and the agent were rising from the table, the operator arrived with a yellow paper. It contained the following reply from New York:
“Can’t find the man. Lots of Glenwoods in the city. No lawyers of that name.”
CHAPTER XXXII.
JERRY’S JOURNEY.
The agent was satisfied that a mistake had been made in the name, and Jerry was of the same opinion.