But it was only a mistake.

But what do you fellows say of the cad who deliberately gets up a story about him; and, even when he finds out there is not a shadow of truth in it, repeats it in a worse form than before?
There are some her who believed the first report and joined in the suspicions.

That was hardly to be wondered at.

But every one of them had the decency, as soon as the money was found, to admit that they had been wrong, and to regret their unfair suspicion of a Fellsgarth fellow.

All but one--this cad here! Only last night, you fellows, he wrote the letter I hold in my hand.