"I sent you 'A Noble Personality' to be printed here, and meaning the copies to be kept here till they were wanted; and the two manifestoes as well.

You returned them with an ambiguous letter which explained nothing." "I refused definitely to print them." "Well, not definitely.

You wrote that you couldn't, but you didn't explain for what reason.

'I can't' doesn't mean 'I don't want to.' It might be supposed that you were simply unable through circumstances.
That was how they took it, and considered that you still meant to keep up your connection with the society, so that they might have entrusted something to you again and so have compromised themselves.

They say here that you simply meant to deceive them, so that you might betray them when you got hold of something important.