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 with 'em, and be any longer a credit to his stock."

"A credit to his stock!" mocked Obed. "That's your usual mild way o' puttin' it. She'll take the man's part, more or less, till she dies, boys, mark my words! Well, the very week after he and his party landed here, that afternoon, there came a big noise about a robbery of a bank in New York, that all the papers was full of; an' the parties that managed it planned the hull affair in a yacht they'd hired, an' they'd expected to get off safe in it when the thing was over. 'Twas a little before your day, Mr. Philip—the Suburban Bank robbery at a place close to New York—"

The Suburban Bank robbery! Touchtone caught his breath excitedly. Gerald nearly betrayed his friend by his unguarded look at Philip. But it was dark now, and the storm was boisterous. Obed pursued his tale, unobserving and quite forgetful of any names that he might have read long ago. "Mr. Clagg said that the description given durin' the trial of those bank-scamps fitted some of Mr. Jennison's friends ashore that day to a T. I'd taken some good looks at 'em from behind my