"You would not have deceived me--no man would--but that I took you for a Christian.

And when I take a man for a Christian I put faith in him.
That's why I put faith in you.

I believed you honest, you see." Chapman's familiar and even rude manner surprised and confounded Hanz.
In vain he protested his innocence, and offered to call the Dominie and Doctor Critchel to testify that he had never in his life wronged any man out of a shilling.
"You sold us something you had not got," continued Chapman, in an angry tone, "and in that you committed a fraud.

Honest men don't do such things--never! Mr.Toodlebug.I thought you were a friend; but you have deceived me--have deceived us all!" The plot was now beginning to develop itself, and Hanz for the first time began to see what a singular chain of adverse circumstances Chapman had drawn around him.

Never before in his life had a man openly charged him with doing wrong.