[Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Thorndyke’s Secret CHAPTER XII 8/32
It is a well got up place, and there are a good many men of title frequent it, but men of title are not always more honest than other people; anyhow, there are some rooks there, and several young fellows of means have been pigeoned and ruined.
They are mighty particular who they let in, and there would be very little chance of getting my regular men in there.
Now, you are a stranger in London, but you have friends here, and no doubt you could get introduced.
We want to know if the play is fair; if it isn't, we would break the place up altogether.
We know enough to do it now; but none of the poor beggars who have been ruined will come forward, and, indeed, haven't any idea, I think, that they have lost their money in anything but a run of bad luck. "One young fellow blew his brains out last week, and his father came here with a list of what are called debts of honor, which he found in his room.
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