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He never came back, and Farmer Jollice found himself in soldier's clothes, the money in his pockets gone, and, when he got to the stable, his horse gone too." "A scoundrel!" says the young man in Georgy's clothes. "And is this the wretched caitiff?" "No, no!" cries Georgy, as innocent as a babe of this matter of the soldier's desertion. "He's the man!
"But the absconder changed clothes with Farmer Jollice, and took his horse; and this man has 'em, d'ye see!" "'Tis not our man," said the soldiers. "He's a tall young fellow with a mole on his right cheek, and a military bearing, which this man decidedly has not." "I told the two officers of justice that 'twas the other!" pleaded Georgy. "But they wouldn't believe me."
'And so it became clear that the missing dragoon was the tall young farmer, and not Georgy Crookhill a fact which Farmer Jollice himself corroborated when he arrived on the scene. As Georgy had only robbed the robber, his sentence was comparatively light.
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