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The very police themselves were, in many cases, in league with the thieves and shared in the "swag" of the successful burglar, expert counterfeiter, adroit pickpocket, villainous sneak and panel thief, or daring and accomplished forger; hence crime, from being in a measure "protected," increased, criminals multiplied and prisons were made necessarily larger.
The detective was sent for, and the case laid before him. That night Mr. Dick Horton, who made the charge, was arrested, and in his rooms were found such proofs against him as a counterfeiter that, a few months later, he went to Sing Sing for ten years.
Your grandfather was an illegitimate son of the counterfeiter Valois. That is the sum total of your relation to the royal family of France.
"Excuse me, Miss," she said, "but is that American gentleman called Mr. Blair?" "Yes," said Kathleen. "Really, Eliza, you are most extraordinary. How did you know?" "I've heard of him," said Eliza. "I think I ought to warn you against him, miss. He's he's a counterfeiter." "Nonsense, Eliza. What notions you do have! He's an antiquarian, and he's coming to see my father about archaeology.
I see no sense of humour in the destiny that brings about such silly circumstances. 'You were always a melancholic soul, Trombin observed. 'As for me, I cannot but laugh when I think that we shall have to rescue our man from the danger of being hanged as a counterfeiter, in order that we may conveniently cut his throat.
How she enjoyed it, and said that she never dreamed that tenement people could be so happy; and she finally waxed so enthusiastic that she gave a silver half dollar each to four little newsboys crouching over the steam on a grating in Twenty-third Street, and when they cheered her and a policeman came along, we told the dear old soul that he evidently thought her a suspicious character, a counterfeiter at the very least.
A counterfeiter, however, would hardly work by so picturesque and noticeable a method, unless he were carefully disguised hardly even then. Was Senhor Poritol disguised? Orme looked at him more closely. No, he could see where the roots of the coarse black hair joined the scalp. And there was not the least evidence of make-up on the face.
The sergeant hailed him and asked what news of the counterfeiter there was from the Legate's court. 'Three hundred and ninety-one good gold ducats confiscated to the Treasury, answered the grey-haired crafts-man, 'and the prisoner to be lodged under the Lion Tower till he is sent to Rome for trial.
Tommy fidgeted, saying: "Have a care, gezabo, or you'll be sending us to the rock pile!" "My friend is cut-upping," Monsieur beamed on the official, but met with no more hearty response than the dry acquiescence: "I've no doubt of it. But suppose you tell me more of your other friend the counterfeiter!" "Friend? My friend?" Monsieur's face now became the picture of horror.
"I know a man when I see him, even if he is a woman." Two days later the sheriff rode into town, leading behind him the counterfeiter's horses, with the wagon and its contents, with thousands of dollars in counterfeit money. The counterfeiter had escaped, he said, and he had wounded him.
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