Chapter 23
"Well, this is certainly a remarkable letter," said the reporter, as he handed it back to Dodger. "I am at a loss to understand the interest which this man appears to feel in you." "I look upon him as my enemy," said Dodger. "But an enemy doesn't spend so much money upon another as he has." "Unless he has object in it," amended Leslie, shrewdly. "Do you know of any connection this man has with you?" "No; I never heard of him until I entered his house," and Dodger flushed as he thought that his entrance into the mansion on Madison Avenue had been as a burglar. "It seems to me that he knows more about you than you do about him. It also seems to me that he is anxious to get you out of New York, the farther the better." "But what harm could I do him in New York?" asked Dodger, puzzled. "
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