CHAPTER IX

Startling News “What?” cried Mark Lawson, starting back and looking at Ted incredulously. “Are you stuck, too?” “Just as badly as you are, and worse, too,” replied Ted. “They’ve got twenty thousand dollars of my money!” He gripped the paper and ran his eyes hastily over the story. There it was, sure enough, in black and white. The firm of Clegg & Company had been obliged to close its doors and was now in the hands of a receiver! That was not the worst of it. It was not only a failure, but a bad failure. It was …