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"Not even if it should leave you penniless?" asked his father.
Adrien raised his head with a mournful smile.
"But for one reason, I am indifferent," he said.
His father's face lit up.
"Yes," he said, "I think I know that reason. Mr. Harker, will you be so
good as to place Mr. Leroy in possession of the facts which you have
already given me. I am almost too tired to speak, after the strain of
these last few hours."
Adrien looked at him remorsefully; for the old man had indeed undergone
much suffering during the last eventful weeks.
Mr. Harker laid a small book upon the table.
"This will do so better than I can, gentlemen," he said. "It is a list
of the various investments in which Mr. Jasper Vermont placed the wealth
he had so fraudulently amassed. His expenses were small; and the
investments which were made with Mr. Leroy's money, and which he had
hoped, of course, to put to his own use, amount to a large sum. When
realised, they will cover the enormous embezzlements, when the forged
bills are destroyed."
Adrien took up the book and glanced through it.
"Is this true?" he said, with an earnestness that all present
understood.
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