16/19 I am sure Robert Penfold never did anything wrong. Mr.Adams, please oblige _me._ Let this go no further till I have seen him, and asked him whether he indorsed it." "Now don't you be in a hurry," said the elder Wardlaw. "The first question is, who received the money ?" Mr.Adams replied that it was a respectable-looking man, a young clergyman. Robert Penfold is incapable of a dishonest act." "It becomes your years to think so, young man. But I have lived long enough to see what crimes respectable men are betrayed into in the hour of temptation. |