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 November nodded. "So up we goes to C, and there we finds them mossbacks accusing the boss. Chris put the boots back in the shack and the bottle on the shelf. An old grudge made him do it. But I could n't tell which of the two small chaps it was at that time. So I set the trap about the lumbermen breaking up the hut, and Chris walks into that. He knew if the hut was took down, the notes 'ud be found. You'd think the ground was hot under him until he starts to bring the police—and him the laziest fellow in C! The minute he offered to go, I knew I had him."

"And you still think Chris robbed Dan?"

"I know it. There was a hundred and twenty-seven dollars that can't be accounted for in the bundle we took off him; and a hundred and twenty-seven dollars is just what Mr. Close paid Dan."