I want more."
"You want more?" ejaculated the squire.
"Yes; I want a thousand-dollar government bond. It's cheap
enough for such a secret."
"But I haven't any bonds."
"You can find me one," said Tony, emphatically, "or I'll tell
what I know to the directors. You see, I know more than that."
"What do you know?" asked Duncan, terrified.
"I know that you disposed of a part of the bonds on Wall
Street, to Sharp & Ketchum. I stood outside when you were up
in their office."
Great beads of perspiration gathered upon the banker's brow.
This blow was wholly unexpected, and he was wholly unprepared
for it. He made a feeble resistance, but in the end, when Tony
Denton left the house he had a thousand-dollar bond carefully
stowed away in an inside pocket, and Squire Duncan was in such
a state of mental collapse that he left his supper untasted.
Randolph was very much surprised when he learned that his
father had paid his bill at the billiard saloon, and still
more surprised that the squire made very little fuss about it.
CHAPTER XXXII
ON THE WAY TO THE BLACK HILLS
Just before Luke started for the Black Hills, he received the
following letter from his faithful friend Linton.
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