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"Evidence is facts, sir," said the attorney. "Any way let us settle about the pheasants first" The condition of the Senator's mind may perhaps be best made known by a letter which he wrote from Dillsborough to his especial and well-trusted friend Josiah Scroome, a member of the House of Representatives from his own state of Mickewa.
The bearer is my well-trusted servant, whom I have chosen to be the sahib's guide until Heaven shall be propitious and we meet. He is instructed in all that he need know concerning what is now in hand, and he will tell by word of mouth such things as ought not to be written. By all means let Rewa Gunga travel with you, for he is of royal blood, of the House of Ketchwaha and will not fail you.
What could there be, I asked myself, almost unconscious that I did so question what could there be in the presence of so many well-known, so many well-liked, so many well-trusted gentlemen, to make me feel so inexplicably ill at ease? Where can a man stand better, I seemed to ask myself, than in the centre of a throng of men that are all his friends?
This was information of the most obtruding sort.... One of my well-trusted friends once said to me, looking up from a work-bench in his own cellar: "When I started to build I went in debt just as far as they would let me." He had one of the prettiest places I ever saw of a poor man's kind, and spent all the best hours of his life making it lovelier. "And it's all paid for?" I asked. He smiled.
To one or two well-trusted men, however, I confided my projects, so that in case of my arrest all proper measures might be taken." From their lips my secret has been wormed or bought by others, until now it has become a byword, and every indiscreet fool and paid spy in our midst knows the tale of my past better than I do myself.
Like a swiftly unreeling three-dimensional film, Hanlon saw the Minister working at his desk, walking about the room, receiving callers, playing with the bird, eating and sharing his food with it talking to it confidentially as he might have done to a well-trusted aide. For over an hour Hanlon sat there, and the bird, seemingly asleep, sat on the chair arm without making a move.
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