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THE EPISODE OF THE OLD BAILEY
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The prisoner went onto the David Granton incident. 'When you offered to amalgamate with Lord Craig-Ellachie,' he asked, 'had you or had you not heard that a gold-bearing reef ran straight from your concession into Lord Craig-Ellachie's, and that his portion
Unwillingly, shamefacedly, Charles was
compelled to confess.
of the reef was by far the larger and more important?' Charles wriggled again, and our counsel interposed; but Rhadamanth was adamant. Charles had to allow it. And so, too, with the incident of the Slump in Golcondas. Unwillingly, shamefacedly, by torturing steps, Charles was compelled to confess that he had
