"This is a feeble trick," she said bitterly; "it is unlike you--it is unworthy of you!" "Good God! You must believe me.

Listen! it was all a mistake--a printer's error.

I read in the paper that the stock for the First Extension mine had gone up, when it should have been the Second.

I had some old stock of the First, which I had kept for years, and only thought of when I read the announcement in the paper this morning.

I swear to you--" But it was unnecessary.