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used: had he done so

I should have at once

· pointed

5.

Towards the afternoon of Iriday, the 16t

out to him as I have privately done since, that

August I received the following

note from Mis

His Excellency had certainly

never

heand

a word

Huffam

to

"Ball's Court,

from

go

me as to Wuffam's being advised to

Masao. It is in this point that His Honour's

memory is at fault.

#.

That I very possibly conveyed a wrong impression to His Wonour on the second point I

gather from the following statement where Wes

Honour sazzo:

(Karagraph 12.) "Mr. Hayllar advised him if

"the story

was true to face an enquiry, if not

that he had better go

to Masao."

Neither of the paragraphs quoted fairly represent the part I took

on the early stage of this mut

unhappy business; which will be best explained by

brief narrative of what actually occurred.

"

" August 16th

"Dear Mr.

Wayllar,

"My husband wishes me

to write and ask you to Kindly call on

him.

of the afternoon

at his house in the course of

کو گور

"Yours truly,

"(signed) Mary Wuffam."

6.

Never

having

been.

intimacy

Ort

terms of

with Wuffam, and having had

social

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hint of the trouble into which he had fallen

was

sufficiently puzzled by this note to go

over

to the Supreme Court to make enquiries, and it was in the office of the Crown Solicitor, and from

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