I ought to have some claim on you, I think.
Many a lift I have given your precious old father, Tom Topertoe, when I did not think of pleading scruples.

To tell you the truth, many a dirty trick I played for him, and never brought my conscience to account for it.

Make the most of this rascally world, and of the rascals that are in it, for we are all alike in the grave.

Put in Val, then, and don't made an enemy of "Your old friend, "Randal Deaker.
"P.S .-- As to Val, he knows nothing of this transaction--I told him I would say so, and I keep my word.

I forgot to say that if you write this beggarly devil, Hickman, a sharp letter for money, he may probably save you the trouble of turning him out.