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 Here's a list of the three banks. Find out if I have anything on the books. See if this building is really still mine. I'll go out for a short walk."

"Very well, Mr. Armitage."

Armitage returned at eleven. The building was still his; but there was nothing in two banks and only about four thousand dollars in the third. On March 1st there had been two hundred and ten thousand dollars in the three banks.

"For a shy and kindly old man he seems to have done pretty well," was Armitage's ironical comment. "Have you any idea where those mortgages were kept?"

"No. The boxes at the banks are empty. They are very curious over at the banks to learn what is up. Here's the mail Morrissy brought up. Suppose we open it?" she suggested.

They sat down at the desk and opened the letters. They found twelve checks, aggregating nearly six thousand. Each check was dated July, made out to the Armitage estate, its character indicated in the lower left-hand corner by the word "interest."