The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
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"Simple enough--your offering me money in return for a friendly service? I don't know what your other friends expect!" "Some of my friends wouldn't have undertaken the job. Those who would have done so would probably have expected to be paid." He lifted his eyes to Flamel and the two men looked at each other. Flamel had turned white and his lips stirred, but he held his temperate note. "If you mean to imply that the job was not a nice one, you lay yourself open to the retort that you proposed it. But for my part I've never seen, I never shall see, any reason for not publishing the letters." "That's just it!" "What--?" "The certainty of your not seeing was what made me go to you. When a man's got stolen goods to pawn he doesn't take them to the police-station." "Stolen?" Flamel echoed. "The letters were stolen?" Glennard burst into a coarse laugh. "How much longer to you expect me to keep up that pretence about the letters? You knew well enough they were written to me." Flamel looked at him in silence. "Were they?" he said at length. "I didn't know it." |
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