"He was holdin' it over a little
fire," explained the officer. "I located him by the smoke smell. I
covered him, and he dropped this last fragment to throw up his hands.
It's money. I didn't know they made 'em so big. But why in hell
should he burn it?"
Murchison examined the fragment with its burned edge. "Alex Thumb was
canny," he muttered. "The bills was too big. He didn't dare to spend
'em."
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