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Rh A stock-jobbing gamble.

Come, come, Mr. Monroe. You have only the man's word for that.

The word of a man who is arrested for perjury.

[Turning to .] Reynolds gives conclusive evidence that Mr. Hamilton gave him advance information of the proposed Government Assumption of States' Debts; that he gave him the money to buy up the paper at bargain prices; and that his share in the spoils will be five million dollars.

Rh

[Genuinely surprised.] So that's what he told you, did he? That's the reason for the whole—thing.

And there are the proofs of the money you gave him.

Rh

[After a pause and looking through letters.] Thirty dollars—twenty-five dollars—one hundred dollars Very modest amounts for purposes of speculation.

Very.