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Updated: May 16, 2025
Carter, you and I believe that these things are done by some clever trickster. It may be that some bogus medium who used to get the colonel's good money away from him, wants more of it, and is taking this means of driving my uncle back to the fold of true believers. "I'm beginning to believe that that may be the fact. But whatever it is, the case is almighty serious.
The envelope of the bogus letter brought by the supposed runner from Diamond Town had been addressed in a big bold black round hand with curiously malformed capitals, to "Mr. BARNEY CASEY, "Commercial Traveller, "Gueldersdorp. "Care of the Officer Commanding H.M. Forces" " Don't put it back in the envelope," said Major Bingo. "Compare the writin' with No. 2."
'Of course I wouldn't be connected, nor you either, with anything that was bogus. 'Certainly not. I wouldn't think for a moment of inflating it if I were not positive the property would stand it.
Some of the bogus firms simply pocketed the cash of correspondents without pretending to render any equivalent whatever; while others, no more honest, but a little more politic, sent forth worthless jewelry and other stuff by the bushel. One of the most villainous and at the same time successful devices was built up on the offer of counterfeit currency at a heavy discount.
I would request him to come on to San Francisco at once on a matter of extreme importance, and his mind being already disturbed concerning his employer he would lose no time in obeying. In Bennett, if I could fairly corner the bogus Farnham, I should have the most valuable witness in the world. My first question was as to whether Mr. Farnham were in the hotel.
"You said to come into your office quite as soon as you came this morning, as you wished to see me on particular business, Mr. Armstrong," he replied in the low voice habitual with him. For an instant the bogus Lester Armstrong's brows were knit closely together; then he said, coolly, sharply: "I've changed my mind; I don't want to see you." Still the man lingered. "Pardon me," he said.
There is one thing you have forgotten." "What is that?" he asked. "A bogus Captain Trent, a bogus Goddedaal, a whole bogus crew, have all started home," said I. "If we are right, not one of them will reach his journey's end. And do you mean to say that such a circumstance as that can pass without remark?" "Sailors," said the captain, "only sailors!
The cat's-paw could not read, or the illegible, meaningless ink scrawl upon the sheet within the boldly-addressed envelope would have aroused his suspicions at the outset. So well had Bough, that expert in human frailty, understood his subject, that the letter was a bogus letter, a fraud, not elaborate a mere stage property, nothing more.
Bogus, 'For Heaven's sake, let's have every creature we can think of, and have 'em all over with at once. For pity's sake, let's have no driblets left that we shall have to be inviting to dinner or to tea. No matter whether they can come or not, only send them the invitation, and our part is done; and, thank Heaven! we shall be free for a year."
Carey flew to the aid of her worser half, Miss Haines wept, and the little girl screamed. Upstairs, the bogus Aunt Mary was still laughing. None of the interested parties could tell afterward how long the talk continued. A louder noise outside drew them all to the front porch. In front of the house was a hansom cab drawn by a disgusted-looking horse.
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