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But his character is bad I don't think he ought to have concealed this from you out of friendship for you, and because I think it is my duty, I take the liberty of writing. If you doubt this I will refer to Mr. Goodnow, or Mr. James Redwood, who had charge of the room in which Ropes was employed. Yours very respectfully, A FRIEND. "You knew all this before, Mr.
Harvey was very sympathetic by nature, and she listened with the deepest interest, and latterly with indignation when Rodney spoke of his dismissal from Mr. Goodnow's store. "You have been treated shamefully," she said warmly. "I think Mr. Goodnow really believes me guilty," rejoined Rodney. "A dishonest boy would hardly have returned a valuable box of jewelry." "Still Mr.
Goodnow?" asked the young man, stroking a sickly looking mustache. "Yes." "Has he taken you into the firm?" "Not yet, but he has given me a place." The clerk whistled. "So you are one of us?" he said. "Yes," answered Rodney with a smile. "Then you ought to know the rules of the house." "You can tell me later on, but now I am going out on an errand." In about an hour Rodney returned.
"But how could it get to your room unless you carried it there?" Rodney gave Jasper a sharp look. "Some one must have taken it there," he said. "How on earth did Uncle James find out?" "An anonymous letter was sent to Mr. Goodnow charging me with theft. Did you hear that articles have been missed for some time from the stock?" "Never heard a word of it," said Jasper with ready falsehood.
Goodnow, arming himself with a limited amount of paper and ink, produced in very few days the Memorandum which follows, a document which it is difficult to speak of dispassionately since it seems to have been deliberately designed to play into the hands of a man who was now openly set on betraying the trust the nation reposed in him, and who was ready to wade through rivers of blood to satisfy his insensate ambition.
Goodnow would be at your place in a short time, and you might easily have waited until seeing him before returning the goods, but you evidently thought you were punishing us and showing your grit by rushing them back by express. I assure you it does not add to your reputation as a business man.
But I am unable to say whether Dr. Goodnow actually gave out such a view or for what purpose he expressed such a view. From what he told the representative of a Peking newspaper he never expressed the views attributed to him. Be this as it may, I cannot help having my doubts. All Dr.
"No; your worthy landlady was not quite sure whether I was what I represented, and I left the parcel there. However I opened it in her presence so that she can testify what I found." "This is very strange," said Rodney, looking at his accuser with puzzled eyes. "I know nothing whatever of the cloak and can't imagine how it got into my room." "Perhaps it walked there," said Mr. Goodnow satirically.
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