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After a moment he tore open the envelope. "I hope there's no bad news, sir?" said the clerk, startled at the paleness of the face Thorpe turned to the desk. "No," replied the landlooker. "Give me a receipt. There's a certified check for your money!" Now that the strain was over, Thorpe experienced a great weariness.
"Jack Pugh, sheriff's officer," said Glass, rising stiffly, with considerable difficulty. "I'll have him in shape to shake hands in a minute," said Casey, as he worried at the knots. "And so, Mr. Glass, instead of an innocent landlooker you are a real live, mysterious detective. You don't look the part. Or perhaps you are still disguised." "I can stand a josh better now," said Glass.
At length the task was finished. It became necessary to type duplicate lists of the descriptions. While the somnolent youth finished this task, Thorpe listened for the messenger boy on the stairs. A faint slam was heard outside the rickety old building. Hasty steps sounded along the corridor. The landlooker merely stopped the drumming of his fingers on the broad arm of the chair.
He argued that the up-river man would have first to make his financial arrangements before he could buy in the land, and this would give the landlooker a chance to get in ahead at the office. There would probably be no difficulty about that. The man suspected nothing. But Thorpe had to confess himself fearfully uneasy about his own financial arrangements. That was the rub.
The man gazed keenly at Thorpe's recumbent figure. "Who's the other fellow?" Thorpe held his breath; then exhaled it in a long sigh of relief. "Him white man," Injin Charley was replying, "him hunt too. He mak' 'um buckskin." The landlooker arose lazily and sauntered toward the group. It was part of his plan to be well recognized so that in the future he might arouse no suspicions.
The weak point of his whole scheme lay in that it was going to be impossible for him to allow the prospective purchaser a chance of examining the pine. That difficulty Thorpe hoped to overcome by inspiring personal confidence in himself. If he failed to do so, he might return with a landlooker whom the investor trusted, and the two could re-enact the comedy of this summer.
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