"
"What does that signify?" inquired Mr. A----.
"It may signify a great deal. They have trust funds in their
possession to a large amount, I am told."
"They are both honorable men, and would not violate their trust,"
said A----.
"I will not gainsay that," answered Mr. B----. "Still, they may use
these funds temporarily, and wrong no one."
Nothing more was said in my presence, but I turned their remarks
over and over again, feeling less satisfied the more I pondered
them. A day or two afterwards I met Mr. Wallingford, and said to
him,
"How comes on the search for the heirs of the Allen estate?"
The question caused him to look grave.
"No progress has been made, so far as I can learn," he answered.
"Isn't this indifference on the part of the executors a little
extraordinary?" I remarked.
"I must confess that I do not understand it," said the young lawyer.
"There is personal, as well as real estate?"
"Yes. Stocks worth twenty thousand dollars."
"I have heard it suggested, that trust funds in the case are going
into Squire Floyd's mill.
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