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 CHAPTER IX

"You are My Mother"

Three men sat in conference in the small library at Henry Matthewson's residence at Waterville, the morning after the bridge incident. These were Henry Matthewson himself, three years younger than his brother Charles, opposite whom was the man who had come from Millbank by the midnight train, Frank Hunter, brother of Charles Hunter and himself an attorney in the late Mr. Wing's office.

"The papers are not in the office," Hunter was saying. "I was nearly certain he did not keep them there, but I made the search carefully."

"How about his private safe at home?" Henry Matthewson asked.

"Of course I've had no opportunity to examine that"

"You should have made one," said Charles Matthewson sternly.