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As he stooped to pick them up he swiftly thrust Bexar Scrip No. 2692 in the inside breast pocket of his coat. This happened at just half-past four o'clock, and when the file clerk took the files he threw them in a pile in his room, came out and locked the door. The clerks were moving out of the doors in long, straggling lines. It was closing time.
"They are supposed to contain all the title papers." "This one, now," said the boy, taking up Bexar Scrip No. 2692, "what land does this represent the title of? Ah, I see 'Six hundred and forty acres in B country? Absalom Harris, original grantee. Please tell me, I am so ignorant of these things, how can you tell a good survey from a bad one.
Go up there some day and call for Bexar Scrip No. 2692. The file clerk stares at you for a second, says shortly: "Out of file." It has been missing twenty years. The history of that file has never been written before.
Its branches are broad and notched along the margins, and the flowers are 1 ft. in length, including the tube, whilst across the broad, spreading petals they measure almost as much. Honduras. Time of flowering, summer and autumn. Mag. 2692, under Cactus Phyllanthus. A robust-growing kind, often attaining to the size of a good shrub. Its flowers expand in the evening, and are sweet-scented.
He found a fatal defect in the title of the land as on file in Bexar Scrip No. 2692 and placed a new certificate upon the survey in his own name. The law was on his side. Every sentiment of justice, of right, and humanity was against him. The certificate by virtue of which the original survey had been made was missing.
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