16/23 If you care to know it, I do not harbour any animosity towards you. But I cannot possibly accept this sum of money. I told Mr.Ascough so finally." "It is only justice, Miss Scott," he said, in a low tone. "I won the money from your father fairly in one sense, but unfairly in another, for I was a good player and he was a very poor one. You will do me a great, an immeasurable kindness, if you will allow me to make this restitution." She shook her head. |