There was much chaff--that was to be expected.

But there was also some precious grain which I have garnered with care.

For instance, I have copies of all Zurich's letters to you.

You have been endeavoring to ruin your cousin, fearing that McClintock might relent and remember Stanley in his will; you have succeeded at last.

Whatever new villainy you have to propose, it now should be easier to name it, since you are relieved from the necessity of beating round the bush .-- You were saying-- ?" "Stanley has found a mine, a copper deposit of fabulous richness; so he writes, and so Zurich assures me.