CHAPTER XXIV
EXPLANATIONS
Sandy found Squire Blasdell having an interview with the strange prisoner.
"I'm putting him on the grill, and trying to find out something about him, but it's hard work," the Squire said to the young farmer.
"Yes, you might as well save your time," spoke the man. "I'll tell you nothing!"
"I've got news for you, Squire," said Sandy, a little later when the constable had been called in to take the stranger back to his cell.
"Looks like good news, by your face, Sandy," the lawyer replied. "You haven't been finding money for the mortgage; have you?"
"That's just what I have, Squire!" Sandy cried. "We just found Uncle Isaac's money box!"
"You did! Gosh all Hemlock' as the boys used to say. How was it?"
"We found the money box—with a lot of
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