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Updated: June 28, 2025
You'd think I'd befriend such a brave, unselfish little chap as that, wouldn't you, lad?" In the interest of his recital Mr. Wadislaw had risen and paced the floor, but he now sat down again, flushed and a bit confused. "What did you do for him, father?" "Hmm. What? Oh! yes. Found out he wanted to come to New York and put him to school. Made a man of him. Gave him a place in the bank.
The porter should not allow But, sir, that wall is as thick as the safe built into it. I mean " Mr. Wadislaw passed his hand across his forehead and Adrian, seeing this familiar sign of impending trouble, felt that his place was at his father's side rather than in quelling that slight disturbance in the adjoining room. He took his stand behind the banker's chair and rested his hand upon it. Mr.
Wadislaw cast a hurried, appealing glance upward, and the son smiled and nodded. The contractor moved about the place, tapping the walls, the floor, and the great chimney beside the safe; pausing at this spot and listening, tapping afresh, listening again, with a marked interest growing in his face.
Wadislaw had himself put the contents of the safe away, had even perverted them to his own use; and that he had injured himself by falling against the sharp corner of the safe's heavy and open door, had been set aside as too trivial for consideration. The hypothesis had been correct, the circumstantial evidence incorrect; yet in the name of justice, the latter had prevailed.
He had been unaccountably anxious and had risen in the night and gone to the bank. He believed that the safe had not been locked, though he had been assured it should be by Mr. Wadislaw, the only other person who had a key to it. To his surprise he had found the banker in his office, but in dire mishap. He was lying on the floor, unconscious, bleeding from a wound upon his temple.
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