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"I have no knowledge," said Creel -- "I have no knowledge whatever, Mr. Tuke, of this ‘Lake of Wine.' Very probably it was as you suggest. I was acquainted with the man's character by report, of course, and judge it infinitely likely that he would have been the principal in a fraud so masterly ingenious. But that goes for nothing."
"Very well, sir. Then, by your permission, we will come to the matter which is of a greater private importance to me. Surely you cannot justify to yourself the fact of withholding evidence of my father's integrity from my father's son?"