"Spare me such a humiliation." Bartley, who was avaricious, but not cruel, hesitated.
"Well," said he, "I will examine the safe before I go further." Mr.Bartley opened the safe and took out the cash-box.

It was empty.

He uttered a loud exclamation.

"Why, it's a clean sweep! A wholesale robbery! Notes and gold all gone! No wonder you were in such a hurry to leave! Luckily some of the notes were numbered.

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