Here 'tis." He read the letter aloud.

Mr.Godfrey wrote that he knew nothing about Major Hardee further than that he had been able to get nothing from him in payment for his board.
"So I seized his trunk," the letter concluded.

"There was nothing in it worth mentioning, but I took it on principle.

The Major told me a lot about writing to his attorneys for money, but I didn't pay much attention to that.

I'm afraid he's an old fraud, but I can't help liking him, and if I had kept on running my hotel I guess he would have got away scot-free." "There!" exclaimed the triumphant Obed, with a sneer, "I guess that settles it, don't it?
Maybe you'd be willin' to turn your bills over to Squire Baker now." But they were not willing.