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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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This
was
enough
for
the
officer,
who
remarked
that
there
might
be
a
mistake;
and
soon
thereafter
he
found
means
to
bring
the
conversation
to
a
close.
Returning
immediately
to
the
clergyman's
house,
he
again
saw
the
lady,
and
told
her
what
had
occurred.
He
made
bold
to
say,
moreover,
that
her
butler
was
a
thief,
that
he
was
stealing
her
husband's
wine,
that
he
in
all
probability
had
made
away
with
the
watch,
and
that
she
ought
to
give
him
into
custody,
and
to
prosecute
him.
At
this
point
the
butler
was
called
in,
and
in
presence
of
his
mistress
plainly
taxed
with
the
theft
of
the
wine.
Finding
it
useless
to
stand
out,
he
confessed
that
he
had
taken
it,
but
protested
that
he
had
not
stolen
the
watch.
The
lady,
however,
had
no
longer
any
doubt
in
the
matter;
and
deeply
distressed
at
finding
how
greatly
she
had
been
deceived
in
her
estimate
of
his
character
for
integrity,
exclaimed--"Oh
John!
to
think
that
after
all
the
pains
your
master
and
I
have
taken
to
make
you
a
good
man,
you
should
have
done
this
wicked
thing!
Oh
John,
John!"
The
officer
saw
that
in
the
lady's
view
all
suspicion
was
removed
from
the
Post-office,
and
prepared
to
leave;
but
feeling
anxious
about
the
lady
in
the
absence
of
her
husband,
said
he
should
go
to
the
police-station
and
fetch
a
couple
of
constables
to
attend
to
the
matter.
On
this
hint
the
butler
became
greatly
excited
and
alarmed,
and
earnestly
begged
that
only
one
policeman
might
be
sent.
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