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Ten thousand pounds! These words have very different meanings to different people. Many of us can form little idea of what those simple syllables contain. They enclose as in a golden casket, rest, freedom from care, bounty, kindness, an easy existence, and an ending free of anxiety to many. To others they are nothing more than a cipher on paper, a symbol without any connection with themselves.
A lamp set in a paper lantern, burned in the guard-house, and threw a pale, sickly light into the shed, which it would not have been sufficient to illumine, under any circumstances. Except the scanty portion which the rays of this light fell on, all the shed was shrouded in impenetrable darkness.
The paper said that in case he should not return, he left us this money and these diamonds in trust to found masses to thank God for his escape and for his salvation. "'At that time I still had my husband, who ran off in search of him.
Three parties were formed. The first, a small one, actuated by the principle that "honesty is the best policy," was in favour of calling in the paper money, and relying on the industry of the people, to replace it with a circulating medium of greater stability.
Place the document on a sheet of white paper and with a paint brush dipped in alcohol of specific gravity 0.86 or 0.87 cover the place supposed to have been tampered with. It may be discovered if the writing thickens and runs when the alcohol has dissolved the resin. Hold the paper moistened with alcohol between the eye and the light; the thinning of the paper shows the work of the forger.
Stephen read it through three or four times to be sure that he had his instructions by heart, then he put the paper into his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it. “It must be done when they bring in my supper,” he said to himself. “I know that I am the last to be served in this corridor, for I can hear them stop at the door next to me before they come here.
Next morning I looked out for the notice, but no such notice appeared in the morning papers, and I afterward learned that, on Parrott and Folsom demanding an actual count of the money in the vault, Haight angrily refused unless they would accept his word for it, when one after the other declined to sign his paper.
"We shall expect you to give us the key of the room in which it is deposited, and if you think fit, in order to screen yourself, you may forewarn us not to enter that room upon our peril." "And then what will you do?" "Send the paper safely back again." "But if I should refuse you admission?" "In that case, your house will be leveled to the ground in five minutes!"
I flatter myself, however, that in everything which has depended on me, much improvement will be made before so interesting a paper shall have taken its last form." In a letter to the president, written on the twenty-third of May, Jefferson expressed his concern at the determination of the president.
The gleam of the thousands of the "Mercury" extras was like the flash of white caps on a troubled sea. Keast faced the audience. "Liars," he shouted, striving with all the power of his voice to dominate the clamour, "liars and slanderers. Your paper is the paid organ of the corporation. You have not one shadow of proof to back you up.
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