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Woe is me} Doc campla This situation progres ses to the point where Ruth, in desperation, and because of enormous suns of money ghe has spent flying to California once a week to | seo the judge, is compelled to ask for reinbursenont end sufficient | to continue with. Of couree, it is {mmediately received, and her gratitude ig overwhelming! Words. . . puny words seem inadequate to express her gratefulness for the money, the new car and the diamonds} Ali are to boeutiful! Daddy, Dearest Daddy. . . how I love youl This she pours cut her heart to her taaddy* » Who, it seoms, is doomed to remain in the penitentiary until the judge is able to go to Washington! Again end again. « - and yet again. . « she suffers the oo * barrasmment of having a depleted benking account. dJgain end yet again ts * fabulous sum acknowledged by her. From where, Shavings days, he has 10 fdea. But it is so strange. « « 50 far-fetohed. . « be opines, that the . oe letters, though be knows they are composed ty Doo, should admit the receipt of these thousands of dollars and prosents! ng, Ba So strange thet he begins, like a fool eventually wits” to see daylight! Now let ze think, Shavings reflects as be lies abed at night. Let m think! Brother Bob? Yes, that could be Doo. Fred? = That could be Guard Clarke or Guard Perkins. Ethel, who is always pentioned « as Bobts - sister, could be his sister. But the correspondence sheet shows he has a sister Stella, not Ethel! There is, Shavings assures hinself, no record of Doo writing . to a Ruth! and certainly, calling Cevalior™ is like calling a kitten Dec's too shrevd to unfold it. Doo “Ly Dearest, Great Big Handsome ye a tiger] There's «a plot somewhere, dut Could it be. . «ky Goa! I*]1 bet on it! Shavings Jumps out of bed and walks hurriedly to Biz Pat's stall. "Tye got it} shouts Shavings as he shakes Big Pat into wakefulness. "I've got it at lesti" “Got what?" growls Big Pat. “a nis cmare 7" "rof Docts racket!"