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Then his plum-like eyes opened lazily, a rare, voluptuous smile sneaked out from under his moustache like a slothful flash of heat lightning; he said: “The sharper has gone and done it, hasn’t he?” Eleanore never moved. “Can the embezzled money be returned within twenty-four hours?” asked the pudgy, purple prince of pen-pushers.
The letter to Secretary Cass states that his time was devoted to examining the public property of the United States which was in the city, the records of the courts, the Territorial library, the maps and minutes of the Surveyor General, and exculpates the Mormons, in great part, from the charge of having injured or embezzled it.
In a thousand men, a certain number will meet accident in a given time. It is just the same whether the insurance is written to be payable when a leg is cut off by a train or when money is embezzled from an employer. In either event the time can be figured out, and inevitably it will come if the time is long enough. Neither is it necessary that the bad luck shall be great at the first misfortune.
So I got #50 in money paid me that same night, and made an end of the bargain; nor did he ever know who I was, or where to inquire for me, so that if it had been discovered that part of the goods were embezzled, he could have made no challenge upon me for it.
I was told I had creditors to satisfy before I could leave I, who had given my wife the money to pay my bills regularly every week! Inquiry showed that she had embezzled every farthing of the money I had intrusted to her. I had no choice but to pay over again. Placed in this awkward position, my first duty was to set things right, with the help of my lawyer.
There a military insurrection broke out against the general, ostensibly because he embezzled the spoil from the soldiers.
John Dwerrihouse had embezzled seventy-five thousand pounds of the company's money, yet told me that he carried that sum upon his person! Were ever facts so strangely incongruous, so difficult to reconcile? How should he have ventured again into the light of day? How dared he show himself along the line? Above all, what had he been doing throughout those mysterious three months of disappearance?
Gold, in the meantime, was incessantly strewed over the encompassing ropes among the exulting people. Bendel, the next morning, revealed to me in confidence that the suspicion which he had long entertained of Rascal's honesty was now become certainty that he had yesterday embezzled whole purses of gold. "Let us permit," replied I, "the poor scoundrel to enjoy the petty plunder.
A large part of the sum which Cook had drawn from the Company's treasury had probably been embezzled by the brokers whom he had employed in the work of corruption; and what had become of the rest it was not easy to learn from the reluctant witnesses who were brought before the committee. One glimpse of light however was caught; it was followed; and it led to a discovery of the highest moment.
Still Drummond was taking no chances of being misunderstood. "There was one man," he went on, "who embezzled for you. Here is another who has embezzled. How will that look when it goes before a jury!" he concluded. The fight had shifted before it had well begun.
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