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Mr. Hueston's self-complacency was gone; he knew how it would be with Eldridge from the first, but he didn't know how it was going to be with himself. He didn't for a moment dream that when the fabric of the young man's fortune came falling around him, that any thing belonging to him would be buried under the ruins.
It was now Mr. Hueston's turn to exhibit a disturbed aspect. "I hold seven thousand dollars of his paper." "Seven thousand dollars!" "Yes." "How in the name of wonder did it come into your possession?" "I took it from Dalton at a tempting discount." "From Dalton! Then his name is on the paper?" "No, I hold it without recourse." "What folly! How could you have done such a thing?"
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