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A man in his position ought to be above anything even touching on injustice." "There you are! 'Seems to be, and 'ought to be," repeated Leila cynically. "May I ask you, Miss Remson, do you know the signature to the president's letter to you to be by his own hand? I would not hesitate to set a trumped-up letter down to the Sans' mischief-making bureau."
At the end of the reaping send us a man to lead before the judge, a man of infirm mind against whom the trumped-up case will break down, Thus we shall save our honour. To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long. Sweet as sugar-cane are the melons of Howli.
I am to receive your word that. I shall have a fair chance to settle the matter with him." "Your request is reasonable." "It is." "Why not join us and then make your demand?" "I will never join a crew with that man; this is a trumped-up charge against me to satisfy private malice." "Why does your accuser seek to accuse you falsely?"
"Satisfy yourselves?" echoed the other, in tones of deep amazement. "What better satisfaction can I afford you than my word? 'Swounds, sir jackanapes," he added, in a roar that sent the lieutenant back a pace as though he had been struck, "am I to take it that your errand is a trumped-up business to affront me?
And their tale, of course, was that Gambara, being the lover of Fifanti's wife, had dispatched the doctor on a trumped-up mission, and had gone to visit her by night. But that the suspicious Fifanti lying near by in wait, and having seen the Cardinal enter, followed him soon after and attacked him, whereupon the Lord Gambara had slain him.
I was triumphantly acquitted. A month later you will find an abject apology from 'The Investigator. This was a trumped-up affair, the work of my enemies. To-morrow I shall publish the full details in 'The Mercury." But the Council were determined that he should no longer be heard. When he asked again: "May I read this document?" the Mayor replied: "I do not think it is in order."
He is far more a gentleman than the men I was with, even though they are welcome at this home; and he is not. Adam turned fairly green with rage. "You ungrateful, disobedient girl. How dare you say that this miserable vagabond is a fit associate for you, and more worthy than the guests of my house? You must not think you can deceive me and clear yourself by any trumped-up lie of his teaching.
"How did you know that?" cried Taylor in astonishment. "I didn't know, Frank; I just guessed." "Well, you made a good guess. It was Newmark. He'd tied up the land in this trumped-up investigation so you could not borrow on it." "How did he find out I owned any land?" asked Orde. "That I couldn't tell you. Must have been a leak somewhere." "Quite likely," said Orde calmly.
"D'you know," here Tommy interposed, not giving me a chance to answer, "that old whiz-bang devil told Doloria that if she spoke to you, or answered your notes, he'd have you jailed for interfering with a foreign country's accredited agent? Sure, he did! He stuffed her poor little head full of trumped-up international law that hadn't a grain of truth in it to scare her, see?
They had not paid for this, they admitted, but said it had been "charged." All the town was in a talk. The papers were served, and on the following day, in court, before Tom Ford, the Mayor, the charge was made and sworn to by Mason, who received, and Hall, who witnessed and also received, the unlawful drink. It was so evidently a trumped-up case that some judges would have dismissed it.
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