for the Lodge, I thought to myself. "You've got yourself
a deal, Your Honor!" I said fervently.

"Call it a _modus vivendi_," he smiled. "Now my big problem is to find
a way to eat my words, and let the 99th National Bank accept
restitution of what Mary Hall stole from them."

"No sweat," I grinned, beginning to feel better. "It's already been
done."

"Done? How could it be? I told the bank not to...."

"You told them," I conceded. "But they had no choice, Your Honor. Mary
Hall went to the 99th National Bank this morning and asked for change
of a five dollar bill."

"What!"

"And passed to the teller a hundred dollar bill. After all HC works
both ways. They've got their money back. By noon they had half a dozen
IBM technicians in there trying to figure why they were out of
balance!"

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