The High Toby. Henry Brereton Marriott Watson

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      "Sir," he said, hesitating, "I am Mayor of the town, and 'tis at her ladyship's request—"

      "I know nothing of her ladyship," said I, interrupting angrily. "If her ladyship blunders, and you through her, you must take the consequence, Mr Mayor."

      He seemed put about at that, but my lady herself intervened, or I would have managed things for myself pretty easily.

      "I charge that man with stealing from me jewels and money to the amount of five hundred guineas, which you will find upon him," said she, for she was now out of the coach and standing in the road among them all.

      "Yes, your ladyship," says the Mayor anxiously, "it shall be attended to."

      "Well, someone shall smart for this," said I, "ere many days are out."

      "And my witness," pursued her ladyship calmly, "sits in the coach, and is my late husband's niece."

      "Oh, a witness," says Mr Mayor, brightening up.

      "To say nothing of my two fellows," she ended.

      With that I saw it was all up, for she was not one to lose her head, and with that plain issue before the Mayor, he could not blunder very far. So I said nothing more, but sat in the clutches of the officers cudgelling my wits for a way out.

      "Celia," says she, "is this the man that attacked us upon the road and stole my jewels?"

      "I—I cannot discern very well—'tis dark," stammered miss, and, rip me! I blessed the chit for that reluctance, though 'twas useless, as it happened, for says her ladyship,—

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