[Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Thorndyke’s Secret CHAPTER XIII 18/31
William Denton, from Mr.James Carew, from Mr.William Hobson, and others; in all of these cases the two men caught cheating last night were also concerned.
You all hold notes of hand of Mr.Hobson.I shall advise that gentleman's father to refuse to pay those notes, and promise him that if any further request for payment is made I will furnish him with such particulars for publication as will more than justify him in the eyes of the world in refusing to honor them.
You, as well as Mr.Emerson and Sir James Flash, have won large sums from Mr.Cotter, and the fact that the IOUs he gave you were found on Mr.Emerson points very strongly to their being in confederacy with you in the matter; at any rate, they point so strongly that, whether a jury would convict or not on the evidence that we shall be able to lay before them, there can be no question whatever as to what the opinion of men of honor will be.
These IOUs are in our hands.
Mr.Cotter does not desire to pursue the case; he will, however, refuse absolutely to pay those IOUs, and in doing so he will have the approval of all honorable men.
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