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When we
said that we could not acquiesce in anything like this, considering that, were
we to do so, it would be an admission that we too had been engaged in conveying
grain to Rhodes, he became even more
insistent, and came up to us, bringing a host of witnesses, asserting that he
was ready to pay us the principal with interest as far as Rhodes; not that he had any more intention to
pay, men of the jury, but suspecting that we should be unwilling to accept the
money on account of the charges to which our action might give rise. The result
made this clear.
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