CHAPTER XXV
MENTIONED FOR PROMOTION—CONCLUSION
Tom rubbed his eyes as though he thought he must be dreaming; but when he looked again he saw the same evil face and mocking eyes. Fancy what Adolph Tuessig on his part must have thought on discovering who it was to whom he owed his latest misfortune!
"What! You?" he gasped in bewilderment.
Tom grasped the true significance of the great good fortune that had come to him. It transcended his wildest dreams. There could have been but one chance in a billion of those two meetings as they did; and yet a strange fate had indeed brought it to pass.
"I've come for that paper you stole from my father, Adolph Tuessig!" Tom exclaimed.
At hearing these words Jack came bustling around from the rear of the car, his eyes wide open, and round with wonder.
"Well I never!" he managed to gasp.
The man who had been so strangely brought to bay seemed in a half daze. He stared at Tom as though unable to grasp the thing that had happened.
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