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This place, I may as well inform you, bears
an unsavory reputation as a gambling joint to which young ladies
of the fastest character are admitted. If you will ask someone in
whom you have confidence and whom you can ask to work secretly for
you to look up the records, you will find that much of the
property on these two blocks, and these two places in particular,
belongs to the Warrington estate. Need I say more?
The letter was without superscription or date and was signed
merely with the words, "A Well-Wisher." The innuendo of the thing
was apparent.
"Of course," she remarked, as Garrick finished reading, and before
he could speak, "I know there is something back of it. Some person
is trying to injure Mortimer. Still---"
She did not finish the sentence. It was evident that the "well-
wisher" need not have said more in order to sow the seeds of
doubt.
As I watched her narrowly, I fancied also that from her tone the
newspapers had not been wholly wrong in mentioning their names
together recently.


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