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Then they had to get a postage-stamp. They little knew how they might put their foot into it there. And they got hold of some young man at the post-office who knew how to fix a date-stamp with a past date. How these things become clear when one looks at them long enough! 'Only one has to have an eye in one's head. 'Yes, said Bagwax, as modestly as he could at such a moment.
They've used the wrong ink-pad! Can't you see that there's violet upon it, while we always use the black pad!" I took it in my hand, and there, sure enough, I saw traces of violet ink upon it the ink of the pad for the date-stamp upon the Consul's table. "Then some document has been stamped and sealed!" I gasped. "Yes. And my signature forged to it, no doubt.
'Not if this be true. 'It's gospel, Sir John; gospel. They might send me out to set that office to rights. Things must be very wrong when they could get hold of a date-stamp and use it in that way. There must be one of the gang in the office. 'A bribe did it, I should say. 'I could find it out, Sir John. Let me alone for that.
He stood by the box as five bags, all similar to the one Peters first produced, were placed in it. Then he closed the lid carefully, passed a piece of string round it, and sealed it with the Birralong date-stamp. "That's as safe as the Queensland National," he exclaimed, as he stood up with pride on his face and faced the three lucky diggers.
He had, he said, found the proprietor's drawer locked, and, not having a stamp about him, had dropped the document into the mail-box with the firm's letters, presuming that the clerks would affix the tax the Government imposed. That the document had reached the post-office was evidenced by the date-stamp on the envelope.
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