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This had happened on the Sunday of that week. "Well, I wanted to look at the post-marks." "By Jove, I never thought of that." Milton continued with the business-like air of the detective who explains in the last chapter of the book how he did it. "I found, as I thought, that both letters came from the same place." Trevor pulled out the letters in question. "So they do," he said, "Chesterton."
"On the contrary, he sought information from me; he is a savage, beneath even our worst ideas of popular degradation. All that is ascertained is that our man exists and is well to do in the world. There comes an annual and anonymous contribution, and not a light one, to his brother. I examined the post-marks of the letters, but they all varied, and were evidently arranged to mislead.
Had any man in the three kingdoms found the following letters directed, sealed, and addressed, with post-marks provided he could have done so honestly he would have read every one of them. There is the true Boswell in this characteristic confession, the Boswell that read in the private diaries of Johnson, and, with an eye to biographical materials, had admitted an impulse to carry them off, and never see him more.
Mauritius stamps of 1847 are estimated by the purchaser, mind at two thousand francs, and post-marks of British Guiana of 1836, from five hundred to a thousand francs. Eighty pounds for a soiled bit of paper, that has no beauty to recommend it! Probably no drawing of equal size from the very hand of Raffaelle or Leonardo would be priced nearly so high as these grubby old stamps.
Stooping to gather them, he noticed for the first time the heavy letter with the foreign post-marks and large legible hand-writing which, had it not been for this timely accident, would have been thrust unconsciously into the fire, thus forcing our narrative to close here, but instead he raised it hurriedly, throwing the rest back on the floor, and scrutinized it with a searching, confused look, but the more he saw it the more it puzzled him, he was evidently in the dark: finally he tore it open and readjusting his gold spectacles, straightened out its creases and began to read.
He stopped before the fireplace, after having walked to and fro some time, and began to examine some letters that lay upon the mantelpiece. They were addressed to Mr. Halliday, and had been forwarded from Yorkshire. The dentist took them up, one by one, and deliberately examined them. They were all business letters, and most of them bore country post-marks.
'tis your business, Sir, not mine, to find him out! And so my cousin despatched it to my head-quarters in town, where from the table it looked up in my face, with a broad red seal, and a countenance scarred and marred all over with various post-marks, erasures, and transverse directions, the scars and furrows of disappointment and adventure. It had not a good countenance, somehow.
"But her remittances for the infant must have been made by letters, and the letters would have had post-marks?" "Well, I dare say; I am no scholar myself. But suppose you see Marie Hubert, that is my niece-in-law, perhaps she has kept the envelopes." "''Where does Madame Hubert live?" "It is just a league off by the short path; you can't miss the way.
The environs of Dunkirk do not, I fear, agree with her." After a few moments' silence, he added, as he continued to walk: "Well these letters whence are they?" Rodin looked at the post-marks, and replied: "Out of the four there are three relative to the great and important affairs of the medals."
Harry Somerville's letters were numerous and long. He had several from friends in Red River, besides one or two from other parts of the Indian country, and one it was very thick and heavy that bore the post-marks of Britain.
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