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to implicate me in the alleged diamond

which he still held, more tightly.
My dear friend, you shock me mex
pressibly," he answered. Il know wha
you mean. | should be more than hu
man if I did not. / assure you tina
your suspicious wrong an honorable
man. If Mr.. De Witt were not a mai
of the highest integrity / should no
permit my name to be associated will
his. Mr.. De Witt is a little hasty, blu
his mind is incapable of such a scheme
He has the loftiest views about hu
mainly and fraternity"
WHO paid Van Worst to put the dia
mono in my pocket and set the police
on me?" demanded Winton bluntly.
The judge released Winton's hand.
and looked at him with an expression
OF the deepest sorrow.
my very dear friend" he answered
listen to the experience of a man Of
the world. Suspicion is a dreadful
thing. 1t poisons the heart at the
source. 1t dries up the noble fountain
of charity. You know what st. Paul
said about charity? And it does not
pay from a practical point of view" he
went on in a natural tone.
Winton had begun to see that the
judges tremolo, in general, was used
for moralizing; his second note, so to
say, was eminently level, shrewd, and
man-of-the-world.
Believe in the goodness of every
man, Mr.. Garrett" quavered the judge,
land you will reap what you have
sown." Then, sharply, you are mis-
taken. l suppose Van Worst, whom we
mean to get by hook or crook some day,
found himself hard pressed, and tried
to divert suspicion from himself by
casting it upon you, a stranger. And
now, young man, will you accept Mr..
De Wits fraternal approaches?
I'm ready" answered Winton, PRO
vided | encounter no further hostility
Mr.. De Witt. And now that the
syndicate has acknowledged my rights
there need be none"
'The Diamond Fields Syndicate
would not now take your property as a
gift, Mr.. Garrett" answered the judge
1~ecisively. "We were prepared to bur
If it only in order to prevent a financial
upon the fields. Shares were 60
up to five times their value, and we
wanted to smother the boom, which
vas artificial and would, in the end,
proved injurious. The finding Of
me large stone signifies nothing. The
public is beginning to realize this, too,
or the rush is Stacking. Mr.. Garrett,
are you going to raise enough cap
tai to work the property, unless you
discover some large stones immediate
y? l presume that you are not a man
# unlimited means?'
"Ill ace that problem when I have
o. said Winton.
"You will have to very soon," an
wered the judge. "You have enough
7orking capital for less than three
lonths at the outside, and the share
olders will not permit the develop
lent of the Big Malopo to be hampered
y lack of means, when the syndicate
lands ready to back you. l should my
elf issue a court order for a receiver
if | were confident that you on
emplated holding up the work here.
[alopo's interests are now yours, and
ours are Malopo's. Having constituted
purser, in spite of your mex
erience. you will find yourself COM
elled, at a very early date, to call
pom the stockholders to put up fur
Ter capital"
Winton reflected. FIe saw Judge
avis point. His duty to the stock
0lders would compel him to keep ade-
late funds in the bank; under the
VS. controlling a cost claim company
~ necessary subscriptions could be
lied for, but four-ffths would have to
out Of his own pocket.
what Is your proposition, Judge
asked WintOn, after bordering
yer the situation for a few moments,
Id coming to realize that th9 judge
I'D the trumps after all.
my dear FRIEND" answered Davis,
have found, in the experience of a
ng life, that our material and moral
dis are c~uriously and providentially
terwoven. 1t is not from any ma
rial considerations that l wish to give
u a piece of advice, though l confess
at a suspicious man might misread
y motive. You have cast doubt upon
e good faith Of the syndicate in the )
ubts that you have cast upon Mr.. /,
} Wits good faith. Believe that W.
!, as fellow citizens of Malopo, are /,
.erested in the promotion Of fraternal :
:
Eyes, but your proposition, judgeT .
ked Winton, beginning to feel re- !
tied by the old mans hypocrisy. :
He came to the conclusion that this :,
atty, which was so gross that Davis :
lst have known it to be patent to r
erybody, had become so much a part
his nature that he could 0 help
it.
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