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It has been told how the gaht On the following Monday Sir Felix did not go to the club He had watched Miles Grendall at play, and was sure that on more than one or two occasions the man had cheated Sir Felix did not quite knohat in such circumstances it would be best for him to do Reprobate as he was himself, this work of villainy was new to hiht he to take? He was quite sure of his facts, and yet he feared that Nidderdale and Grasslough and Longestaffe would not believe hiht, hardly enough authority at the club to be of any use to hio to the club He felt severely the loss of the excite was too important to him to be slurred over He did not dare to sit down and play with theabout it On the Wednesday afternoon life was beco at about five in the afternoon There, as asherry and bitters 'Where the blessed angels have you been?' said Dolly Dolly was at that moment alert with the sense of a duty performed He had just called on his sister and written a sharp letter to his father, and felt himself to be almost a man of business

'I've had fish of my own to fry,' said Felix, who had passed the last two days in unendurable idleness Then he referred again to theany co for i with an air of ieht, at this moment, be very serviceable to him 'I'm particularly anxious to take up those shares,' said Felix

'Of course you ought to have your money'

'I don't say that at all, old fellow I know very well that you're all right You're not like that fellow, Miles Grendall'

'Well; no Poor Miles has got nothing to bless hiht to pay'

'That's no excuse for Grendall,' said Sir Felix, shaking his head

'A chap can't pay if he hasn't got it, Carbury A chap ought to pay of course I've had a letter from our laithin the last half hour-- here it is' And Dolly pulled a letter out of his pocket which he had opened and read indeed the last hour, but which had been duly delivered at his lodgings early in the , and Melovernor can't sell without me, and I've asked for half the plunder I knohat's what My interest in the property is greater than his It isn'tof £50,000, over and above the debt upon it £25,000 would pay off what I owe on my own property, and make oing to give in to my terms'