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"Mrs Gordon," she said, "do you advise me to pay this money?"

"My dear, I don't advise at all Don't consider us in the matter

at all It is for you to say"

"Then I will pay nothing It is a cruel, infanorant people don't knohat they are doing Sooner

than pay one penny in compromise, I alk off this station

a pauper God will not let such villainy win Mrs Gordon, surely

you don't think that I ought to blackenmoney to keep this claim quiet?"

Here Pinnock broke in on her speech "But if they should e to

produce evidence--"

"Let thee believe it if he likes

You and I and everybody know that it is a lie; even if they win the

case, it is still a lie I will pay nothing--not one halfpenny My

mother's name is more than all the money in the world, and I will

not blacken it by coht out, and if we lose we shall still know that justice is on

our side; but if we pay money--"