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quite safe, he had the audacity
to write and beg
to decline 10
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"listen to an
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may n the Repre-
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he
to take the sacrament until the ve
very
same "Colonist" made friends with hime. Remarking upon his conduct
my
lotter
the 5th December, 1884',
of very sufficient,
Areasons therein.
for the ve
set out I told him that "I believe if
conduct was made Anown to
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the
Queen you
you would cease
r in Chief
I have already
mention.
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letter
my
in thrusting his troubles upon my
house and as the other sides did
personally
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was doubly dragged in
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Sis George Bowen that I was led to
believe from his stra-
strange conduct that he would really go
did not help them out
mad if
of
the dis
l
"graceful predicament, in which he had placed himself
I extricated him.
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and from which
wish here to explains that
during the negotiations that led to
The letter of
The 4th
September 18811.
was was
being kept back condition ally. I wone asked to promise the strictest secrey but I emphatically refused to be so
fied down
because all the circumi-
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