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Updated: May 26, 2025
If anything could be done, it must be done by the postmarks, and those postmarks Bagwax studied morning, noon, and night. It had now been decided that Bagwax was to be sent out to Sydney at the expense of the Caldigates. There had been difficulty as to leave of absence for such a purpose.
Dear Miss Butterworth: Suggestions are always in order, and even dictation can be endured from you. The postman delivers too many letters on that block to concern himself with postmarks. Sorry to close another thoroughfare. Meanwhile, the anxiety of both was great; that of Mr. Gryce excessive.
And loyal Southerner though he was, Martin Culpepper's interest in the affair between Ward and Miss Lucy was greater than his indignation over the fact that Ward had carried his campaign even into Virginia; nothing would have tempted him to disclose to his political friends at home the postmarks of Ward's letters. That was the year of the great drouth of '60, remembered all over the plains.
"Are you sure this is all, Jane?" I asked. "Quite sure, sir," said Jane, smiling, and then with a curtsey she took her leave. The envelope was addressed in a bold hand-writing to Justin M. Blake, Esq., Gower Street, London, W. "Surely I know the writing," I mused, and then began to look at the postmarks as if a letter were something of very uncommon occurrence.
Next to it there was another letter addressed to Arthur in a hand that she did not know, but bearing the same postmarks, "Bratham" and "Roxham." She put them both aside, and then took up the thick letter and examined it.
If such evidence could avail to rescue a prisoner from his sentence, and to upset a verdict, what verdict or what sentence could stand? Poor Dick's sworn testimony, in Judge Bramber's mind, told rather against Caldigate than for him. Then came the postmarks, as to which the Bagwaxian theory was quite distinct from that as to the postage-stamp.
To have no definite date conveyed by the term 'Rogation Sunday' is to the clerical mind gross ignorance. The horsey man thinks you have been in bed all your life if the 'near side' is not as descriptive to you as 'the left hand. To Bagwax and Curlydown, not to distinguish postmarks was to be ignorant.
Looking back at all the facts, remembering that fatal twenty thousand pounds, remembering that though the postmarks were forged on that envelope the writing was true, remembering the acknowledged promise and the combined testimony of the four persons, he was inclined to think that something of the kind had been done in this case.
But this operation had required much time and much attention. Would the Secretary, or would the judge, clear his table, and give himself time to inspect and to measure two or three hundred postmarks?
He felt that it grew hot, however, and Gleason's insinuation cut, as Gleason knew it would. Old Whaling was morbidly inquisitive as to the correspondence of his officers, and could rarely resist the temptation of studying postmarks, seals, superscription, and general features of all letters that came through his hands. "Not not especially," he stammered. Gleason saw his advantage and pursued it.
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