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queried Madam Jeffreys . `` Yes ; he has had orders from home to collect the money we owe the house , or else to take the store , the farm , our household furniture , everything , at once . Williams leaves for home Christmas Day , and everything must be settled before then . He gives us till to-morrow noon to raise the money . But that is not the worst , '' continued Mr. Bays , nervously , rising and turning his back to the fire , `` Tom has -- has overdrawn his account more than a thousand dollars in Williams 's office . Williams do n't call it ` overdrawn . ' He calls it embezzlement , theft .