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Mr Squercum all this time was in a perfect fever of hard work and anxiety It h to perceive the whole truth He did really know it all,--if he could prove that which he knew He had extended his inquiries in the city till he had convinced hiht have had twelve h of it left at present to cover the liabilities Squercu, but a fallen star,--perhaps not giving sufficient credence to the recuperative powers of modern commerce Squercum told a certain stockbroker in the City, as his specially confidential friend, that Melone coon' The stockbroker reed with Squercuone coon' If such were the case it would positively be the ed that he should appear as the destroying angel of this offensive dragon So Squercuether to shut their doors against hi that they had the also that they must be careful not to seeive it up about the letter having been signed by er Bideawhiles

'I give up nothing and I assert nothing,' said the superior attorney 'Whether the letter be genuine or not we had no reason to believe it to be otherwise The young gentlenature is never very plain, and this one is about as like any other as that other would be like the last'

'Would you let ain, Mr Bideawhile?' Then the letter which had been very often inspected during the last ten days was handed to Mr Squercum 'It's a stiff resemblance;--such as he never could have written had he tried it ever so'

'Perhaps not, Mr Squercueries in letters from our clients or our clients' sons'

'Just so, Mr Bideawhile But then Mr Longestaffe had already told you that his son would not sign the letter'

'How is one to knohen and how and why a young e his purpose?'

'Just so, Mr Bideawhile But you see, after such a declaration as that on the part of my client's father, the letter,--which is in itself a little irregular perhaps--'