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Lincoln denied these insinuations, and said that he had never favored those doctrines; but the trick succeeded, and the impression was made that Douglas had cornered him. The questions, to all intents and purposes, were a forgery. This forgery was quickly exposed by a Chicago paper, and the result was not helpful to Douglas.
This was promising; a little different from the ordinary brag; I signaled inconspicuously to our stenographer to keep right on the job. "When I was twenty-four years old, I saw my chance to shake the gang and try out my own idea," Clayte rattled it off feelinglessly. "It was a lone hand for me. My father had made a stake by a forgery; checks on the City bank.
"Your tongue lies better than your face, Ainley. Just now your face told the truth. You have seen that paper before. You saw it at Oxford when you prepared yourself for the forgery that sent Stane to prison. You " "I'll not stand it!" cried Ainley jumping to his feet. "You are charging me with a crime of which a judge and jury found Stane guilty. It is insufferable.
This paper is not worth a rush, unless the curate who examined it will depose to that fact. He is a curate a Welsh curate; you are yet Mr. Beaufort, a rich and a great man. The curate, properly managed, may depose to the contrary; and then we will indict them all for forgery and conspiracy. At the worst, you can, no doubt, get the parson to forget all about it to stay away.
On proclamation of a man's being convicted of forgery, and that he ought to have his hand cut off, he insisted that an executioner should be immediately sent for, with a Spanish sword and a block.
The notary turned his green glasses full on the viscount. "How does this forgery affect me?" After a moment's pause Ferrand said, with a severe tone, "Are you acquainted, sir, with the duties of a notary?" "The duties are perfectly clear to me, sir. I had just now forty thousand francs; I have now remaining but thirteen hundred." "You are very jocose, sir.
Tracing can only be employed when a signature or writing is present in the exact or approximate form of the desired reproduction. It may then be done by placing the writing to be forged upon a transparency over a strong light, and then superimposing the paper upon which the forgery is to be made.
"It shows that the Midland Company James Marchmont, president transferred to Jefferson Corrigan, on a date prior to these other transactions, one-hundred thousand acres of land here the Midland Company's entire holdings. Why, man, it is forgery!" "No," said Corrigan quietly. "James Marchmont is alive. He signed his name right where it is.
If Bentley denounced the whole as a forgery, it seems to follow, by logical inference, that he would have pronounced the same verdict on the half or the third part. Dr. Cureton is mistaken when he affirms in the preceding communication that his Syriac version has rejected "all the passages" against which "the critics of the Ignatian controversy" had protested.
I'll write him immediately, and, while waiting his reply, I'll hover about Oaklands as much as possible, and try to ascertain the date of the Logan-Pepper alliance; and at the same time make another effort to recover possession of Sebastian's letter and that dangerous little specimen of forgery."
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