THE GIRL IN HIS HOUSE
"A painter?"
"Yes. I'm going to rub out that 'Bordman' and substitute 'Armitage.' I've got some eggs left in the basket, and maybe I'm not going to watch them hereafter! I'm coming down here regularly every morning. I'm going to learn how the ant does it. My grasshopper days are over. I wonder if we can get into that safe."
"Wait a moment," said Miss Corrigan. Once more she had recourse to the note-books. After a few minutes she returned triumphantly. "I know the combination. I used to open the safe sometimes. Nothing of real value inside—ledgers. He gave me the combination and I wrote it down here."
They found the estate ledgers and a sealed envelope, the latter addressed in this formal legal style:
Attention James Armitage
Armitage opened it. In a neat flowing hand, with characteristic little curlicues and flourishes and shaded capitals—curiously reminding him of the script of the Declara-
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