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Rh point it is for me to follow Dr. Hume's lead and warn you to be careful." "Oh, I'm sure enough. I've too much reason to be sure. Forgery, sir; that's what it was, rank forgery. In his rage Mr. Philip let it all come out, so that there's plenty of others who know of it, or I shouldn't be speaking of it now. Mr. Philip has gone on dreadfully since he found it out. I've sometimes wondered if he was going mad. "Yesterday afternoon Mr. Edwin came to Arlington Street; there was an awful scene. I went into them; I didn't think they'd come to blows in front of me. Then Mr. Philip began at me. 'Morley,' he said, shouting so that you might have heard him in Pall Mall, 'my brother's a thief! That's no news, you've heard it before; but he's been robbing me again, on fresh lines, and he'll keep on robbing me until, in spite of all I can do, he'll succeed in dragging an honoured name through the mire. But before then, Morley, I'll kill him, for the cur he is. If he's found with his neck broken you'll know who did it'

"Then he turned to Mr. Edwin. 'So you've had fair warning. And now, you blackguard, out of this house you go before I throw you through the window.' And out he did go, and it was about time he did, or I believe Mr. Philip would have thrown him through the window."