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"The Great Oro" was the mine for the capitalization of which Abel Geddis had used the money belonging to his depositors; the basis of the theft which had cost me three good years of my life. "But I had understood that the 'Oro' was a fake, pure and simple!" I protested. "It was. A claim had been located and a shaft sunk to ninety feet, but there was no mineral.
With shame I record it, I had already forgotten my own culpable weakness in permitting a dastardly fear of consequences to make me Agatha's puppet and a sharer in her more than questionable dissipations; had forgotten that by every step I had taken with Agatha Geddis I had increased the distance separating me from Mary Everton.
I'll like it better if you will say that you were blind drunk when you did it." "I wasn't more's the pity, Bob; on the contrary, I was never soberer in my life." "Of course, you haven't told Polly." "No not yet." "Nor Everton?" I shook my head. "I didn't want to commit suicide." Barrett chuckled softly. "I happen to know this fellow the Geddis woman is running away with," he said.
She made an immediate success as a portrait painter, and from 1814 during fifty-two years her pictures were annually exhibited at the Academy with a few rare exceptions. Her family name was Geddis; her husband was Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum more than twenty years, and after his death his wife received a pension of £100 a year in recognition of his services.
"Oh, of course, the formal plea in court would be 'Not guilty. I'm merely advising you not to make the fight vindictive. If you don't, I'm inclined to believe that Geddis will stand by you and you'll get off easy." It was on the tip of my tongue to say that I would fight to the last gasp before I would suffer myself to be tried and condemned for a crime of which I was innocent.
More than once I had half suspected that he was in with Geddis on the mining deal, but I had no proof of this. "You say they were getting ready to railroad me out of town last night: I suppose they will do it to-day, won't they?" "Not if I can help it, Bertie. I'm goin' to try to hold you here till you've had time to kind of straighten yourself around and ketch up with the procession.
"I mean that four years and a half ago there were pretty strong reasons for suspecting that you were Abel Geddis's attorney, rather than mine." "Oh, pshaw!" he returned with large lenience. "Geddis wanted to be fair with you he thought a good bit of you in those days, Bert, little as you may believe it and he did offer to pay my fee, if you couldn't.
Under the State law, as you probably know, the depositors' losses had to be made up, to the extent of twice the amount of the stockholdings, by the stockholders in the bank. When they came to count noses they found that Geddis and Withers hadn't done a thing but to quietly unload their bank stock here and there and everywhere, until they held only enough to give them their votes.
I like you, Bertrand, and I shall be glad to hear your defense, if you have any." What could I say? Driven thus into a corner, I could only protest, rather incoherently, that I loved Polly, and that, in other circumstances, I should long since have asked her to be my wife. "The 'circumstances' are connected with Miss Geddis?" he asked pointedly. "Only incidentally.
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