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From all which it came to pass that the judge was understood to have declared that that special envelope might very well have passed in ordinary course through the Sydney post-office. But Samuel Bagwax was not a man to be put down by the injustice of lawyers. He knew himself to have been ill-treated.
He lived comfortably in a suburban cottage with a garden, having some private means, and had brought up a happy family in prosperity; but he had done nothing new. Bagwax, who was twenty years his junior, had with manifest effects, added a happy drop of turpentine to the stamping-oil, and in doing so had broken Curlydown's heart.
The Secretary of State had probably not occupied his mind much with the matter; but in the mind of Bagwax there was a fixed idea that the Secretary thought of little else, and that the Secretary had declared that his hands were tied till Bagwax should have been to Sydney. But his conscience told him that the journey was not necessary, and that the delay would be cruel.
They did much of their work with such tools. The date on the envelope, the date conveyed by the impression, to which so much attention had been given, was 10th May 1873. Bagwax had succeeded in getting covers bearing dates very close to that.
Bagwax was well aware that Curlydown was instigated solely by envy. But still, these were his own convictions, and Bagwax was in truth a soft-hearted, conscientious man. 'I do think it ought to be enough for any Secretary of State, said he, 'and I'll go to Sir John Joram to-morrow. Of course, I should like to see the world; who wouldn't?
'Mercy is divine, said Bagwax. 'And therefore unfit to be used by a merely human judge. You know, I suppose, that Richard Shand has come home? 'No! 'Indeed he has, and was with me a day or two since. 'Can he say anything? Bagwax was not rejoiced at Dick's opportune return. He thoroughly wished that Caldigate should be liberated, but he wished himself to monopolise the glory of the work.
I took quite as much interest as you in the matter when we were down at Cambridge. 'You see that postage-stamp? Bagwax stretched out the envelope, or rather the photograph of the envelope, for it was no more.
Samuel Bagwax had perhaps been a little too energetic. He had made the case his own, and was quite sure that the envelope had been tampered with. I think that the counsel for the Crown pressed his witness unfairly when he asked Mr. Bagwax whether he was absolutely certain that an envelope with such an impression could not have passed through the post-office in the ordinary course of business.
The paper of the envelope had no water-marks. Bagwax thought that if he could get hold of the envelope itself something might be done even with that; but here Sir John could not go along with him, as it had been fully acknowledged that the envelope had passed from the possession of Caldigate into the hands of the woman bearing the written address.
On a certain morning in August, Bagwax was seated at his table, which as usual was laden with the envelopes of many letters. There were some hundreds before him, the marks on which he was perusing with a strong magnifying-glass.
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