9/30 You can't have the original with you ?" "But I have, sir. You should have looked more closely at the one you burned." "Can't we compromise this matter ?" asked the squire, in an insinuating tone. "I have got through with rascality. If I were as hard up as when I called upon you before, I might not be able to resist you; but I am worth over ten thousand dollars, and--" "Have you broken into a bank ?" asked Squire Davenport, with a sneer. |