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"
Good
heavens
!
"
he
interrupted
quickly
--
"
Bad
news
travels
fast
as
a
rule
they
say
--
but
you
have
missed
it
...
and
I
confess
I
do
n't
like
to
be
the
bearer
of
it
...
"
He
broke
off
,
and
his
genial
face
looked
troubled
.
I
smiled
--
yet
wondered
.
"
Pray
speak
out
!
"
I
said
--
"
I
do
n't
think
you
can
tell
me
anything
that
will
deeply
affect
me
--
now
.
I
know
the
best
and
worst
of
most
things
in
the
world
,
I
assure
you
!
"
He
eyed
me
dubiously
;
--
then
,
going
into
his
smoking-cabin
,
he
brought
me
out
an
American
newspaper
seven
days
old
.
He
handed
it
to
me
pointing
to
its
leading
columns
without
a
word
.
There
I
saw
in
large
type
--
"
A
Millionaire
Ruined
!
Enormous
Frauds
!
Monster
Forgeries
!
Gigantic
Swindle
!
On
the
track
of
Bentham
and
Ellis
!
"
My
brain
swam
for
a
minute
--
then
I
read
on
steadily
,
and
soon
grasped
the
situation
.
The
respectable
pair
of
lawyers
whom
I
had
implicitly
relied
on
for
the
management
of
all
my
business
affairs
in
my
absence
,
had
succumbed
to
the
temptation
of
having
so
much
cash
in
charge
for
investment
--
and
had
become
a
pair
of
practised
swindlers
.
Dealing
with
the
same
bank
as
myself
,
they
had
forged
my
name
so
cleverly
that
the
genuineness
of
the
signature
had
never
been
even
suspected
--
and
,
after
drawing
enormous
sums
in
this
way
,
and
investing
in
various
'
bubble
'
companies
with
which
they
personally
were
concerned
,
they
had
finally
absconded
,
leaving
me
almost
as
poor
as
I
was
when
I
first
heard
of
my
inherited
fortune
.
I
put
aside
the
paper
,
and
looked
up
at
the
good
captain
,
who
stood
watching
me
with
sympathetic
anxiety
.
"
Thank
you
!
"
I
said
--
"
These
thieves
were
my
trusted
lawyers
--
and
I
can
cheerfully
say
that
I
am
much
more
sorry
for
them
than
I
am
for
myself
.
A
thief
is
always
a
thief
--
a
poor
man
,
if
he
be
honest
,
is
at
any
rate
the
thief
's
superior
.
The
money
they
have
stolen
will
bring
them
misery
rather
than
pleasure
--
of
that
I
am
convinced
.
If
this
account
be
correct
,
they
have
already
lost
large
sums
in
bogus
companies
--
and
the
man
Bentham
,
whom
I
thought
the
very
acme
of
shrewd
caution
has
sunk
an
enormous
amount
of
capital
in
a
worn-out
gold
mine
.
Their
forgeries
must
have
been
admirably
done
!
--
a
sad
waste
of
time
and
cleverness
.
It
appears
too
that
the
investments
I
have
myself
made
are
worthless
;
--
well
,
well
!
--
it
does
not
matter
--
I
must
begin
the
world
again
,
that
's
all
!
"
He
looked
amazed
.
"
I
do
n't
think
you
quite
realize
your
own
misfortune
,
Mr
Tempest
"
--
he
said
--
"
You
take
it
too
quietly
by
half
.
You
'll
think
worse
of
it
presently
.
"
"
I
hope
not
!
"
I
responded
,
with
a
smile
--
"
It
never
does
to
think
the
worst
of
anything
.
I
assure
you
I
realize
perfectly
.
I
am
in
the
world
's
sight
a
ruined
man
--
I
quite
understand
!
"
He
shrugged
his
shoulders
with
quite
a
desperate
air
,
and
left
me
.
I
am
convinced
he
thought
me
mad
--
but
I
knew
I
had
never
been
so
sane
.
