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Updated: June 23, 2025
About eleven o'clock I sent for my carriage, and along it came in due course. Well, I dare say at that hour I wasn't myself in a condition to be critical of Oke's Sir Felix pulled out his watch, and asked me what I made the time. 'Off we drove, pursued Lord Rattley, ignoring this hint, 'and I must have dropped asleep at once. When I awoke the blessed vehicle had come to a standstill.
"A thimbleful o' brandy might do the Admiral good," suggested the prisoner. "Brandy?" cried Lord Rattley. "The air reeks of brandy! Where the ?" "The basement's swimmin' with it, m' lord." The fellow touched his hat. "Two casks stove by the edge o' the table. I felt around the staves, an' counted six others, hale an' tight.
Lord Rattley murmured. The Admiral, glancing to right and left, saw, too, that three or four of his colleagues were lifting their eyebrows in polite protest. "I I beg your pardon, gentlemen, for not consulting you! Correct me, if you will.
Batty, the Justices' Clerk. "The Inspector tells me it's a tramping fellow the police picked up two nights ago. He has been in lock-up ever since." "Then why the devil couldn't they have sent round and fished up one of us or a couple to deal with the case out of hand?" "Damned shame, the way the police nurse this business!" murmured Lord Rattley, our somewhat disreputable local peer.
"I counted six casks, m'lord, so well as I could by the feel " "Yes, yes! And here's a couple of sovereigns for yourself all I happen to have in my pocket " Lord Rattley bustled off to the house for brandy. "England's old England, hows'ever you strike it!" chirruped the prisoner gleefully, and touched his forehead again. "See you at the Show, m' lord, maybe?
'Reminds me began Lord Rattley, when Sir Felix who is ever nervous of that nobleman's reminiscences, and had by this time divested himself of his Inverness cape, turned to the Clerk and demanded news of a lad discharged at the last Sessions on his own and parents' recognisances, to be given another chance under the eye of our new Probation Officer.
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