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Tony Newton was not given to indiscriminate charity. He believed in that variety which began at home and stayed there, for he had a profound lack of faith in the bona fides of charity organisers. He was not intensely interested in the Mercantile Marine, nor had he the slightest intention of founding cottage houses for disabled sailors -- until he met Mr Match.
Tony always said that the affair of the shipowner was his greatest exploit -- the greater perhaps since he gained no personal benefit from his ingenuity.