"Now, Mr. Grey," said the squire, with the same smile.
"Till I get farther information," said Mr. Grey, "I can only limit
myself to giving the advice which I offered to you yesterday."
"Perhaps you will repeat it, so that he may hear it," said the squire.
"If you get a list of those to whom your son Mountjoy owes money, and an
assurance that the moneys named in that list have been from time to time
lent by them to him,--the actual amount, I mean,--then I think that if you
and your son Augustus shall together choose to pay those amounts, you
will make the best reparation in your power for the injury you have no
doubt done in having contrived that it should be understood that
Mountjoy was legitimate."
"You need not discuss," said the squire, "any injuries that I have done.
I have done a great many, no doubt."
"But," continued the lawyer, "before any such payment is made, close
inquiries should be instituted as to the amounts of money which have
absolutely passed."
"We should certainly be taken in," said the squire. "I have great
admiration for Mr. Samuel Hart. I do believe that it would be found
impossible to extract the truth from Mr. Samuel Hart. If Mr. Samuel Hart
does not make money yet out of poor Mountjoy I shall be surprised.
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