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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
197
The
man
of
X----
was
a
man
of
determination,
and,
still
smarting
under
the
loss
of
means
and
honour,
he
resolved
that,
sooner
or
later,
he
should
discover
by
whom
his
letter
had
been
stolen.
The
silversmith,
readily
entering
into
these
views,
cordially
offered
his
personal
services,
and
it
was
arranged
between
the
banker
and
himself
that
they
should
ransack
London,
visiting
the
Ranelahs,
the
Vauxhalls,
the
Parks,
the
theatres--indeed
every
place
where
gay
women
and
men
of
pleasure
might
be
found
together.
This
was
an
arduous
task;
but
in
the
end
their
perseverance
was
rewarded
by
the
discovery
of
the
young
woman
to
whom
the
farmer
had
presented
the
rings.
On
being
questioned,
this
young
person,
while
frankly
stating
what
she
knew,
had
little
to
tell.
She
had,
she
said,
been
in
Snow
Hill
or
Holborn
one
morning
at
the
hour
of
the
arrival
of
the
west
of
England
mail-coach.
Among
the
passengers
who
got
down
was
a
youngish,
fresh-looking
farmer,
whose
acquaintance
she
then
made,
and
whose
constant
companion
she
was
for
several
days
thereafter.
She
still
wore
the
articles
of
jewellery
which
had
been
presented
to
her;
but
she
declared
that
she
had
never
seen
the
man
since,
nor
did
she
know
his
name.
And
here
the
inquiry
again
seemed
to
exhaust
itself,
in
the
vague
discovery
of
a
west-country
farmer.
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