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Nevil's first impulse was to fly at his companions and smash their sullen faces in. But a moment's reflection showed him the futility of this, so that he held himself severely in check. He was breathing heavily as he turned to Murray.
"Now, let us have this quite clear," he said. "Am I to understand definitely that those Copper Bonds we deposited with Haywood and Co. are deliberate forgeries?"