_Gent_. Can you not do it to-night? _Boy_. I believe I may if I knew where to come. _Gent_. Come to my house, child. _Boy_. I don’t know where you live. _Gent_. Go along with me now, and you shall see. So he carried me up into Tower Street, and showed me his house, and ordered me to come there at five o’clock at night; which accordingly I did, and carried the letter-case with me. When I came the gentleman asked me if I had brought the book, as he called it. “It is not a book,” said I. “No, the letter-case; that’s all one,” says he. “You promised me,” said I, “you would not hurt me,” and cried. “Don’t be afraid, child,” says he. “I will not hurt thee, poor boy; nobody shall hurt thee.” “Here it is,” said I, and pulled it out. He then brought in another gentleman, who, it seems, owned the letter-case, and asked him if that was it, and he said, “Yes.” Then he asked me if all the bills were in it. I told him I heard him say there was one gone, but I believed there was all the rest. “Why do you believe so?” says he. “Because I heard the boy that I believe stole them say they were too big for him to meddle with.” The gentleman then that owned them said, “Where is the boy?” Then the other gentleman put in, and said, “No, you must not ask him that; I passed my word that you should not, and that he should not be obliged to tell it to anybody.” “Well, child,” says he, “you will let us see the letter-case opened, and whether the bills are in it?” “Yes,” says I. Then the first gentleman said, “How many bills were there in it?” “Only three,” says he. “Besides the bill of £12, 10s., there was Sir Stephen Evans’s note for £300 and two foreign bills.” “Well, then, if they are in the letter-case, the boy shall have £30, shall he not?” “Yes,” says the gentleman; “he shall have it very freely.” “Come, then, child,” says he, “let me open it.” So I gave it him, and he opened it, and there were all three bills, and several other papers, fair and safe, nothing defaced or diminished; and the gentleman said, “All is right.” Then said the first man, “Then I am security to the poor boy for the money.” “Well, but,” says the gentleman, “the rogues have got the £12, 10s.; they ought to reckon that as part of the £30.” Had he asked me, I should have consented to it at first word; but the first man stood my friend. “Nay,” says he, “it was since you knew that the £12, 10s. was received that you offered £30 for the other bills, and published it by the crier, and posted it up at the custom-house door, and I promised him the £30 this morning.” They argued long, and I thought would have quarrelled about it.