Crossword-Solution: GAMMONED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Thompson, in conjunction with a pal that occasionally worked with him, gammoned a countryman out of a good round sum of money, under pretence of getting him a situation—the regular old dodge—and was afterwards in the “Hue and Cry” for a horse—a horse that he stole down in Hertfordshire.

Until then we shall take no steps in the matter.” “But, my poor Thuillier,” said Brigitte, “you have let yourself be gammoned by a rascal; that man belongs to the Godollo set.” “Madame de Godollo,” replied Thuillier, “is not at all what you suppose her to be, and the best thing this house can do is never to say one word about her, either good or evil.

Thereafter the letter runs in Peter’s own words, for Peter was afraid that Harry gammoned too much, and he wanted the straight story of his needs to go to headquarters.

Nine days afterwards the unfortunate man dies--an act which at any rate is not often successfully gammoned.

The full blown imposition has exploded--the wretched cheat is consigned to merited durance; while the trebly-_gammoned_ and unexampled spoons who were his willing dupes are in full possession of the enviable notoriety necessarily attendant upon their extreme amount of unmitigated folly.