A Mystery Explained
Going to the Falls and to the White Mountains!" "Yes, I'm off next week." "How long will you be absent?" "From ten days to two weeks." "What will it cost?" "I shall take a hundred dollars in my pocket-book! That will carry me through." "A hundred dollars! Where did you raise that sum? Who's the lender? Tell him he can have another customer." "I never borrow." "Indeed! Then you've had a legacy." "No, and never expect to have one. All my relations are poor." "Then unravel the mystery. Say where the hundred dollars came from." "The answer is easy. I saved it from my salary." "
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