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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! The seed had been sown and two private detectives would now grow where only one grew before. I would be dogged, and my lightest word would be taken down in writing and used in evidence against me. And heaven knew what they might dig up. I have led a blameless life, never having been found out yet--that is to say, in anything serious--but with a horde of paid jackals burrowing into my past----! Thinking of what they might discover made me shudder. Already I saw the headlines: "Gallivanting Gudgeon Goes Gay"--and the alimony! Surely it is a strange law that, not content with depriving a man of his reputation and his honour, must needs go farther and make demands on his pocket.
Stanley had done it again, this time in collaboration with Oyster-mouth.