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`` Ah , yes ; I know him for a scheming and not over-scrupulous person . I fought a tough battle with him a year or so ago . '' But Royal Bryant still looked greatly perplexed . He could not understand how the pawnbroker could have had that particular gold-piece to loan upon Mr. Knowles ' clock , before seven o'clock on Saturday evening , when Edith Allandale had been arrested , that same night , for trying to pass it off upon the grocer of whom she had spoken in her note . To him it seemed an inexplicable mystery . However , he knew -- he could take his oath -- that the coin which he now held in his hand was the identical piece of money which he had paid to his beautiful but unfortunate copyist for her last week 's work , and he was also reasonably sure that it was not a counterfeit . `` I suppose you will have no objection to testifying as to how and from whom you received the money ? ''