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Updated: June 28, 2025
In a matter of postage-stamps Smithers is gospel. Then Sir John read the statement; and though he may not have taken it for gospel, still to him it was credible. 'It seems clear, he said. 'Clear as the running stream, said Bagwax. 'I should like to have all that gang up for perjury, Mr. Bagwax.
'A fellow has to have his wits about him before he can do anything out of the common way in any line. You'd tell Sir John everything at once; wouldn't you? Curlydown raised his hat and scratched his head. 'Duty first, you know. Duty first, said Bagwax. 'In a man's own line, yes, said Curlydown. 'Somebody else ought to have found that out. That's not post-office. It's stamps and taxes.
And yet he longed to go to Sydney with all his heart. He would be almost broken-hearted if he were robbed of that delight. In this frame of mind he packed all his envelopes carefully into a large hand-bag, and started in a cab for Sir John Joram's chambers. 'Where are you going with them now? Curlydown asked, somewhat disdainfully, just as Bagwax was starting.
In that cab Bagwax made up his mind that he would do his duty like an honest man. Sir John's chambers in Pump Court were gloomy without, though commodious and ample within. Bagwax was now well known to the clerk, and was received almost as a friend. 'I think I've got it all as clear as running water, Mr. Jones, he said, feeling no doubt that Sir John's clerk, Mr.
He thought that the pertinacity of Bagwax, and the coming of Dick Shand at the moment of his holidays, were circumstances which justified the use of a little internal strong language, such as he had occasionally used externally before he had become attorney-general. In fact he had damned Dick Shand and Bagwax, and in doing so had considered that Jones his clerk was internal.
An altogether new idea had occurred to Bagwax as he sat in his office after his interview with Sir John Joram; and it was an idea of such a nature that he thought that he saw his way quite plain to a complete manifestation of the innocence of Caldigate, to a certainty of a pardon, and to an immediate end of the whole complication.
The judge had admonished the jury that in reference to such a point they should use their own common-sense rather than the opinion of such a man as Mr. Bagwax. A man of ordinary common-sense would know how the mark made by a die on a letter would be affected by the sort of manipulation to which the letter bearing it would be subjected; and so on.
Then they had to get a postage-stamp. They little knew how they might put their foot into it there. And they got hold of some young man at the post-office who knew how to fix a date-stamp with a past date. How these things become clear when one looks at them long enough! 'Only one has to have an eye in one's head. 'Yes, said Bagwax, as modestly as he could at such a moment.
He did not believe Dick Shand. But then he had put no trust in Bagwax, and had been from the first convinced, in his own mind, that Caldigate had married the woman. As soon as it was known to him that his client had paid twenty thousand pounds to Crinkett and the woman, he was quite sure of the guilt of his client.
'What's the good of that? asked Curlydown, as he passed rapidly under his own glass the stamps which it was his duty to inspect from day to day. 'All the good in the world, said Bagwax, brandishing his own magnifier with energy.
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