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The discreet and ingenious Mr. Morgan, a London
confidential valet, whose fidelity could be trusted, had been to
Chatteris more than once, and made every inquiry regarding the past
history and present habits of the Captain and his daughter. He delicately
cross-examined the waiters, the ostlers, and all the inmates of the bar
at the George, and got from them what little they knew respecting the
worthy Captain. He was not held in very great regard there, as it
appeared. The waiters never saw the colour of his money, and were warned
not to furnish the poor gentleman with any liquor for which some other
party was not responsible. He swaggered sadly about the coffee-room
there, consumed a toothpick, and looked over the paper, and if any friend
asked him to dinner he stayed. Morgan heard at the George of Pen's
acquaintance with Mr. Foker, and he went over to Baymouth to enter into
relations with that gentleman's man; but the young student was gone to a
Coast Regatta, and his servant, of course, travelled in charge of the
dressing-case.


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