The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross

to the banker's office the following forenoon by the bank wa

ok a good deal when he chuckled, and who shook now, "I thought you were old

ver the counter," said the

d Mr. Monroe, taking the strange b

the admission,

ou not yet

sed the jeweler. "It was taken by Chet for a hu

oks to be," chuc

stomer of the bank. "A hundred printed on one side and a fifty on

bank-note printer," said the banker, reaching into anot

like this one you have brought to me. Only this note that we have here was printed for the Drovers' Levee Bank of Osage, Ohio, as you can easily see. This

ent was anxious to recall it. With another bill it had been printed for a bank in Kansas, and the mistake had been made by the printer who had turned the sheet upside down in printing the reverse side. The first plate bore the obverse of a fifty-dolla

easy and simple mistake, and one that might often

ity that the Department at Washington would make the strange

, "if that man came

who passed the bank

was injured and is

t know.

ate mental condition of the injured man. "They tell me all the

kled the jolly banker. "Poor chap! Don't th

er said, rising. "Then you thi

o Washington, where they probably already have a record of it. Bills of this denomination are

the part of all the young people was aroused in the case of the injured stranger. Oddly enough, when Laura and Jess

lthough nobody seemed to know who or what the Steeles were, and they certainly lived very oddly in the old house at the lower end of Whiffle Street, Janet wa

ed on this occasion. Mrs. Langworth had some interest in each pati

m 'John.' But that, I am sure, is not his name. He merely wishes us to have a 'handle' for him. And you can

" asked Janet, with

t is the last he can remember. He believes he 'made his pile,' as he expresses it. Oh, he uses mining expressions,

out him to identify

nty of money. Not

'a nice little girl he knew.' It was only a ten dollar one--one of those

velope in his pocket,

tion of it to 'the nice little gir

Jess. "He bought the chain in the morning, and he was not hurt

said the matron, "and described the poor fellow to

e might see him?" Lau

ld you want to?

he afternoon, of course. He will be glad to see young faces, I have no doubt I will speak to

ee girls left the hospital and walked uptown again. "He can't be a

" admitted her chum. Then: "Sh

ess. "Are you going

niform. "I have been on duty at the Cen

r, dear?" asked La

gravely. "If she had nothing to worry her mind

ss, blunt-spoken as she often was, could not ask point

ere before them. Harum-scarum as Bobby was, nobody could accuse her of lack of sympathy; and she had already

the hospital was the pivot on

inquire about him?" ask

and look; but she did not understand it. Merely, Mother Wi

erest in him, as I helped hi

learned nothi

bill he gave Chet is probably

d a big money r

n, of course,"

she is sure he has been

ce that passed between the

med Mrs. Steele, "you

g her head, "But lots of

dmitted Mr

seem to have any friends here in Centerport. He is just as much a stranger as the man they tell about who came back to his ol

the returned wanderer

s,' said t

cried the man. 'Why, I knew him well

uffeur, as the hearse went by. 'What d'you

must feel," said Mrs. Steele,

o see him the nex

her daughter. "You will see him, t

ot to like the idea;

oo. If Mrs. Langworth approves, I mean. 'The more the

dered why the invalid showed so