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who coloured the bag contrived to conjure them out of it unopened and so stole them.
Had the letters remained in this office they must have been found. The probabilities of Mr. Siria's stealing may be left out of the question; and besides the extreme unlikelihood that the Coolie took them, it is singular that never under any circumstances, have registered letters disappeared in this way before. Such a case is indeed unique.
It has sometimes happened that errors have been made in the list of retired letters, so that an Officer advised of the forwarding of four found only three, or formed five! But on enquiry, such errors have always been found to be clerical, the letters themselves being invariably all right. Their disappearance altogether is a thing unheard of, at least in the history of this office.
Had the Manila Office taken a dignified position in the matter however, and said plainly from the first that the Registered letters were not received (a circumstance to which any other office would instantly have called attention) in...
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who clored the bag contrived to conjure them out of it unobrewed and so etole
them.
Had the letters remanied in this
office they must have been found. the probabilities of M. Siria's stealing may be left out of the question;
theme
and besides the Extreme unlikelihood
that the Coolie look them, it it singular that never under any circumstances, have registered letters disappeared in this way before
of succe
a case
Indeed I may say that such
of the vanishing of Registered correspondence is unique.
It has
sometimes happened that errors have
been made in the list of re tired
letters, so that an
Officer
retired
advised
of
the forwarding of four found only
or formed five !
But on Enguery
three, or
etere errors have always been found
to be clerical, the letters themselves
being invariably all right. Their disappearance allogether is a thing, unheard of, at least in the history of this office.
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Had the Manila Office taken a dignified position in the watter however, and eaid plainly from the first that the Registered letters
were not received / a circumstance
la to which any other office would instantly have called accention) in
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