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`` So it is , '' said Levy with an oath . `` This is a very bad case , Mr. Raffles . '' `` I agree , '' said I. `` And may I ask if you propose to ` get rid ' of Mr. Garland by making him ` pay up ' in full ? '' `` Before twelve o'clock to-day , '' said Dan Levy , with a snap of his prize-fighting jaws . `` Eight hundred , first and last , for the three hundred he borrowed a year ago ? '' `` That 's it . '' `` Surely that 's very hard on the boy , '' I said , reaching the conciliatory stage by degrees on which Raffles paid me many compliments later ; but at the time he remarked , `` I should say it was his own fault . ''