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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"A
letter
supposed
to
contain
a
L10
note
was
registered
at
Moffat,
and
in
due
course
delivered
to
the
addressee,
who,
however,
declined
to
sign
a
receipt
for
it,
as
the
L10
note
was
missing.
The
sender
was
written
to,
but
he
asserted
that
the
note
had
been
enclosed.
The
postmaster
chiefly
concerned
(who
had
been
more
than
fifty
years
in
the
service)
was
greatly
distressed
at
the
doubt
thus
cast
upon
his
honesty;
but
on
further
inquiry,
the
sender
admitted
that
he
had
obtained
a
trace
of
the
L10
note,
and
stated
that
the
fault
had
not
been
with
the
Post-office.
On
being
pressed
for
fuller
information,
he
stated
that
when
writing
his
letter
he
had
placed
the
L10
note
in
an
envelope
and
affixed
a
postage-stamp
thereon,
when
a
lady
came
hurriedly
into
his
shop,
also
to
write
a
letter,
and
he
had
assisted
her
by
getting
an
envelope
and
placing
a
postage-stamp
on
it;
that
he
had
placed
this
envelope
beside
that
which
contained
the
bank-note;
and
that
when
the
lady
had
finished
her
letter,
he
gave
her
by
mistake
the
envelope
with
the
L10
note
in
it,
and
put
his
own
letter
into
the
empty
envelope.
He
had
carried
the
two
letters
to
the
Post-office;
and
his
own,
which
he
supposed
contained
the
L10,
he
had
registered.
Both
letters
were
safely
delivered;
and
the
L10
having
been
returned
as
evidently
sent
in
error,
the
lady
who
had
forwarded
it
brought
it
to
the
complainant,
and
thus
the
mystery
was
cleared
up."
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