The Duke Decides
Have cabled a thousand pounds to Morgan’s to your credit.—Pattisons.”
“Pattisons” were the family solicitors, and he who a moment before had called himself Charles Hanbury now knew that his true description would appear in the next issue of “Debrett” as “Charles Augustus Trevor Fitzroy Hanbury, seventh Duke of Beaumanoir,” with a rent-roll of two hundred thousand a year.
And he stood committed, on pain of assassination, to aid and abet in the palming off of bogus bonds on the Bank of England!
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