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affirmed to me was the simple truth as to his conversation with Mr. Johnson.

In reply, Mr. Johnson wrote to Dr. Eitel on the 8th of November maintaining the accuracy of his (Mr. Johnson's) memory, and so an issue of fact was joined between them.

Mr. Johnson finds fault with me for not getting rid of Dr. Eitel as Private Secretary before the 15th of November. As long as Dr. Eitel avowed his ability and intention to prove the inaccuracy of Mr. Johnson's version of their private conversation, I could not, in justice to a gentleman who, in other respects, was such an extremely good and useful officer, deprive him of his private secretaryship, but when, acting as I understood on the advice of Mr. O'Malley, his Counsel, he (Dr. Eitel) began to shift his ground and admit that he had been talking, though as he still alleged in an unauthorized and gossiping way, about Johnson, I was compelled to dispense with his services as Private Secretary. But it was not till the case was subsequently withdrawn, that Dr. Eitel allowed himself - it is generally supposed under pressure put upon him by Mr. Hayllar - to assert that in permitting the case to be withdrawn he had acted against his own interests and wishes, and that everything he had said in his conversation:

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40 affirmed to me was the simple truth as to his conversation with Mr. Johnson. 7. In reply, Mr. Johnson wrote to Dr. Eitel on the 8th of November maintaining the accuracy of his (Mr. Johnson's) memory, and so an issue of fact was joined between them. 8. Mr. Johnson finds fault with me for not getting rid of Dr. Eitel as Private Secretary before the 15th of November. As long as Dr. Eitel avowed his ability and intention to prove the inaccuracy of Mr. Johnson's version of their private conversation, I could not, in justice to a gentleman who, in other respects, was such an extremely good and useful officer, deprive him of his private secretaryship, but when, acting as I understood on the advice of Mr. O'Malley, his Counsel, he (Dr. Eitel) began to shift his ground and admit that he had been talking, though as he still alleged in an unauthorized and gossiping way, about Johnson, I was compelled to dispense with his services as Private Secretary. But it was not till the case was subsequently withdrawn, that Dr. Eitel allowed himself - it is generally supposed under pressure put upon him by Mr. Hayllar - to assert that in permitting the case to be withdrawn he had acted against his own interests and wishes, and that everything he had said in his conversation:

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