[Corporal Cameron by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookCorporal Cameron CHAPTER V 29/52
That was young Cameron!" "You don't tell me! The left-half in the English International last fall ?" "Yes, indeed! Oh, he's wonderful! But he has to be watched, you know, and the young fool lost us the last--" Miss Bessie abruptly checked herself.
"But never mind! Well, after the season, you know, he got going loose, and this is the result.
Owed money everywhere, and with the true Highland incapacity for business, and the true Highland capacity for trusting people--" "Huh!" grunted Sir Archibald in disapproval. "-- When his head is in a muddled condition he does something or other to a cheque--or doesn't do it, nobody knows--and there he is in this awful fix.
Personally, I don't believe he is guilty of the crime." "And why, pray ?" "Why? Well, Mr.Dunn, his captain, who has known him for years, says it is quite impossible; and then the young man himself doesn't deny it." "What? Does NOT deny it ?" "Exactly! Like a perfectly straightforward gentleman,--and I think it's awfully fine of him,--though he has a perfectly good chance to put the thing on a--a fellow Potts, quite a doubtful character, he simply says, 'I know nothing about it.
That looks like my signature.
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