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Again I agreed. I was leaving the Metropole the next day, so the matter was easy. I called and purchased the cigar-case on approval, I forwarded dollar-notes in payment from the Metropole, and the next day I left." "And you did all that without a single question?" "I did. It was only a little consideration for an old confederate." "And suppose that confederate had played you false?"
Mark was waiting at the wood hut when it came, and had a letter handed to him from on board. He bore it off to Martin. They looked at one another, trembling. 'It feels heavy, faltered Martin. And opening it a little roll of dollar-notes fell out upon the ground. What either of them said, or did, or felt, at first, neither of them knew.
* Forged dollar-notes. With the simplicity which knows no better they deplore their ill-rewarded "industry," and describe their fraudulent practices as though they were a proper means of earning bread and butter. They have as little shame as repentance. Their only regrets are that they have been ruined by the police or forced to spend a few barren years in the State prison.
Ruth spoke so seriously, and with such an air of firm conviction, that he was absolutely staggered. "So I did," he said. "And was informed in the most positive way by the junior partner that the case I admired had been purchased by an American called Smith and sent to the Metropole after he had forwarded dollar-notes for it.
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