The Dugdale Millions — page 323: what you’re looking at

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DETECTED AND CAPTURED. 313 Ransom did make the attack without our knowledge. How much Ransom knew of it or was a party to I can’t tell. But I knew nothing of it until yesterday morning. You may believe this or not, as you see fit; but it is true. Now, do with me as you will. I have played my part, and if it were not for an accident, and the appearance of Eric Lacey, I would have won. So you've come into a title, old man? You are the Lord Merrimount, eh? I had forgotten it was inthe family.” Merrimount went to him and, standing before him, said earnestly : “Do you say on your honor—pshaw! You have none—but are you telling me the truth when you say you knew nothing of this attempt on Mason’s lice? ““T tell you the exact truth, Lacey.” “How am I to believe you?” “Because you never knew me to lie to you in the eld fag days.” “That is true. You never did.” The young nobleman strode across the room, threw up the sash of the window looking upon the lawn, and pushed open the outer blind. “IT do not want to be, and will not be, responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of the old school- fellow whom I have exposed.” He looked sternly at Harold Pierson. “In the belief that you have told me the truth, and that you had no part in the cowardly attack on Mr. Mason, I tell you to fly.” He pointed to the open window. Looking at the others in the room, he said: | “We'll give the poor beggar a chance for his liberty. He'll be hunted down quickly enough, God knows!” Then turning to Harold Pierson again, he said, point- ing at the window: Got?’ Flarold cast a quick glance at Mr. Stanton, then at Comicloeo® <S C@© 5}