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Foul Play

CHAPTER I
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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.
"Ah!" said Wardlaw, with a world of meaning.
"Father!" said young Wardlaw, imploringly, "for my sake, say no more to-night.

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.


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