"Why--what----!" "When you told her that I was a forger, that I'd passed a false cheque, you didn't think that she would go to me.

You thought she would accept your statement, as she has accepted your other lies about me, and just drop me.

Oh, yes; I know how you managed to get her away from me.

Poor girl! Unawares she let out a great deal in the few minutes she was with me to-day.

You blackened my character pretty considerably; and, by George! you must have done it very well, or you would not have got her to believe you.