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But now he saw and was certain. If it was so, and he had no doubt, then would Caldigate surely be released. It is hoped that the reader will follow the mind of Bagwax, which was in this matter very clear. This envelope had been brought up at the trial as evidence that, on a certain day, Caldigate had written to the woman as his wife, and had sent the letter through the post-office.
'He says a great deal. He has sworn point-blank that there was no such marriage at the time named. He and Caldigate were living together then, and for some weeks afterwards, and the woman was never near them during the time. 'To think of his coming just now! 'It will be a great help, Mr. Bagwax; but it wouldn't be enough alone. He might possibly tell an untruth.
Curlydown had taken upon himself of late to ridicule the envelopes, and had become almost an anti-Caldigatite. Bagwax vouchsafed to make him no reply. On the previous afternoon he had declared his purpose of going at once to Sir John, and had written, as Curlydown well knew, a letter to Sir John's clerk to make an appointment.
If Bagwax were in the right about that envelope, and the reader will by this time think that he was right; and if Dick Shand had sworn truly, then certainly our friend John Caldigate was not in want of mercy. It was instant justice that he required, with such compensation as might come to him from the indignant sympathy of all good men.
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.
So far it was all clear to the mind of Bagwax, and almost clear that the postmark could not have been made on the date it bore.
And as Shand corroborates Bagwax, I am nearly sure of him also. You must take his deposition, and let me have it. It should be rather full, as it may be necessary to hear the depositions also of the doctor and his wife. We shall have to get him out. 'You know best, Sir John. 'We shall have to get him out, Mr. Seely, I think, said Sir John, rising from his chair. Then Mr.
But Bagwax was too full of his subject, and of his own honesty, for that. 'I don't think that I need go out after all, Mr. Jones. 'Oh indeed! 'Of course it will be a great sell for me. 'Will it, now? 'Sydney, I am told, is an Elysium upon earth. 'It's much the same as Botany Bay; isn't it? asked Jones. 'Oh, not at all; quite a different place.
'Nothing is impossible, Mr. Bagwax had replied. 'Is it not very much within the sphere of possibility? the learned gentleman had asked. The phrase was misleading, and Mr. Bagwax was induced to say that it might be so. But still his assurance would probably have had weight with the jury but for the overstrained honesty of his companion.
And it may well be that his own labours were made heavier by the devotion of his colleagues to other matters. And yet from time to time Bagwax would ask him questions, never indeed taking his advice, but still demanding his assistance. Curlydown was not naturally a man of ill-temper or an angry heart. But there were moments in which he could hardly abstain from expressing himself with animosity.
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