Brooks the other day inserted an acknowledgment in the
papers of the receipt of one thousand pounds anonymous. You saw what
Lavilette said about it?"
"No. What?"
"Oh, he had a little sarcastic paragraph--declined to believe that Brooks
had ever received a thousand pounds anonymously--challenged him to give
the number of the note, and said plainly that he considered it a fraud.
There's been no reply from Brooks."
"How do you know?"
"This week's Verity. Here it is!"
"We have received no reply from Mr. Kingston Brooks up to going to
press with respect to our remark concerning the thousand pounds alleged
to have been received by him from an anonymous giver. We may add that
we scarcely expected it. Yet there is another long list of
acknowledgments of sums received by Mr. Brooks this morning. We are
either the most credulous nation in the world, or there are a good many
people who don't know what to do with their money. We should like to
direct their attention to half-a-dozen excellent and most deserving
charities which we can personally recommend, and whose accounts will
always stand the most vigorous examination.
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