Cecil was waiting for me , so I got in the buggy and we drove off . On arriving home I shut myself up in my dark room and proceeded to develop the first two negatives of the Carroll housestead . They were both excellent , the first one being a trifle the better , so that I decided to finish from it . I intended also to develop the third , but just as I finished the others , a half-dozen city cousins swooped down upon us and I had to put away my paraphernalia , emerge from my dark retreat and fly around to entertain them . The next day Cecil came in and said : `` Did you hear , Amy , that Mr. Carroll has lost a pocketbook with five hundred dollars in it ? '' `` No ! '' I exclaimed . `` How ? When ? Where ? '' `` Do n't overwhelm a fellow . I can answer only one question -- last night . As to the ` how , ' they do n't know , and as to the ` where ' -- well , if they knew that , there might be some hope of finding it . The girls are in a bad way . The money was to get them their longed-for piano , it seems , and now it 's gone . '' `` But how did it happen , Cecil ? '' `` Well , Mr. Carroll says that Mrs. Carroll handed the pocketbook back to him at the gate yesterday , and he dropped it in the inside pocket of his over-coat -- '' `` I saw him do it , '' I cried . `` Yes , and then , before he went to be photographed , he hung his coat up in the hall . It hung there until the evening , and nobody seems to have thought about the money , each supposing that someone else had put it carefully away . After tea Mr. Carroll put on the coat and went to see somebody over at Netherby .
He says the thought of the pocketbook never crossed his mind ; he had forgotten all about putting it XXXXX that coat pocket .
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