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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER XII
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When the times comes I will expose him.

Should I not be able to detect him we must try another night.

I am so much convinced that this is the case, and that I shall succeed, that whether you play one night or three I will guarantee that you shall be no loser, but will, on the honor of a gentleman, place in your hands the amount of your losses; so that you will not have to ask your father for a check larger than you would do if you confessed to him tomorrow morning.

I only ask in return that you, on your part, will give me your word of honor that you will never touch a card again after you rise from the table." "I cannot accept so generous an offer from a stranger," Cotter said in a low tone.
"I do not think that it is generous," Mark replied quietly, "because I am perfectly convinced that I shall not have to pay at all.

Have you any other IOUs out ?" "I have given them for about 5000 pounds, but that is not in addition to the 29,000 pounds.


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