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I should not take

any step in the

maller without his knowledge and

approval. I promised to do so and Kypt my promise until the case was taken out of Court.

17. Owing, however, to the attitude I observed on the part of the Governor's family, I lendered

to His Excellency my resignation as Ppriate Secretary on the day

Lis of the governor's return. Excellency firmly declined accepting

my resignation, saying that there

was no reason whatever for my

tendering

it at all.

The only

18.3.

occasion when

the governor expressed disapproval

of

of what I had done in his absence was when I told home that Mr. Ng Member of Council, wrote to

Choy

ne

shortly after the taking out of

the writ and asked me to let him see the documents in the case, but I replied that I thought it better

under the circumstances to do no

more in the maller until the

Governor returned. His Parellency thereupon told me that I ought

to have continued

my

carrying out instructions and that I

ought to have told Str. Ny Choy

all the details of the case.

19. After.

some interviews

which the Governor had with Mr. His Carettency

Johnson,

handed to me