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'I'll bet you a pony he don't. 'I'll take the bet, said the late Attorney-General. But as he did so he looked round to see that not even a gamekeeper was near enough to hear him. On that Friday Bagwax was in a very melancholy state of mind at his office, in spite of the brilliancy of his prospects with Miss Curlydown. 'I'll just come back to my old work, he said to his future father-in-law.
'You'll be going on to the stage, Bagwax, before this is done. 'I have sometimes thought that it was the career for which I was best adapted. But, as to the envelope, the facts are now certain. 'Any new facts? asked Curlydown. But he asked the question in a jeering tone, not at all as though desiring confidence or offering sympathy. 'Yes, replied Bagwax, slowly.
She has had her admirers, and perhaps might have looked higher; but what's rank or money if a man's fond of pleasure? But when that was settled they returned again to the Caldigate envelope. Curlydown was not quite so sure as to that question of duty.
Curlydown, had been by no means a constant or an energetic witness. A witness, when he is brought up for the defence, should not be too scrupulous, or he will be worse than useless. In a matter of fact a man can only say what he saw, or tell what he heard, or declare what he knew. He should at least do no more. Though it be to save his father, he should not commit perjury.
Caldigate, written by himself, Crinkett wasn't contented with that. So they put their heads together, and said that if the letter could be got to look like a posted letter, a letter sent regularly by the post, that would be real evidence. The idea wasn't bad. 'Nothing has ever been considered better evidence than postmarks, said Curlydown, with authority. 'It was a good idea.
The general idea, therefore, in the office, was that Bagwax would do no good in Sydney, that others would have been better than Bagwax, in fact, that of all the clerks in all the departments, Bagwax was the very last man who ought to have been selected for an enterprise demanding secrecy, discretion, and some judicial severity. Curlydown and Bagwax occupied the same room at the office in St.
The General can believe in nothing but in well-trained troops. Curlydown would willingly have expended the whole net revenue of the post-office, and his own, in improving the machinery for stamping letters. But he had hardly succeeded in life. He had done his duty, and was respected by all.
Caldigate was languishing in prison, and that poor, nameless lady was separated from her husband, and he had the proof lying there on the table before him, sufficient proof, as he did in his heart believe! But how often does it fall to the lot of a post-office clerk to be taken round the world free of expense? The way Curlydown put it was ill-natured and full of envy.
'What's the good of that? asked Curlydown, as he passed rapidly under his own glass the stamps which it was his duty to inspect from day to day. 'All the good in the world, said Bagwax, brandishing his own magnifier with energy.
'The facts are certainly new, and most convincing; but as you have not given attention to the particular branch concerned there can be no good in my mentioning them. You would not understand me. It was thus that he revenged himself on Curlydown.
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