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92  You will be tried and punished.  Try me; punish me!  Your family and friends will be punished also.  [Alarmed.] What?  Every one of them.  But they've done nothing.  Nothing? The young woman who lent her name to this abominable trick? The young man who fetched the cab for you? The family who saw you off on your criminal errand? What Court in the world would believe such a story?  But it's true. This is all my own scheme. My people had notliing to do with it.  Tsch!  I give you my sacred word of honour sir——