Adventure stories; England -- Fiction; Romanies -- Fiction
"It was owing to this excellent man that my innocence was eventually
established. Having been called to a town on the borders of Yorkshire to
a medical consultation, he chanced to be taking a glass of wine with the
landlord of the inn at which he stopped, when the waiter brought in a
note to be changed, saying 'That the Quaker gentleman, who had been for
some days in the house, and was about to depart, had sent it to be
changed, in order that he might pay his bill.' The landlord took the
note, and looked at it. 'A fifty-pound bill,' said he; 'I don't like
changing bills of that amount, lest they should prove bad ones; however,
as it comes from a Quaker gentleman, I suppose it is all right.' The
mention of a fifty-pound note aroused the attention of my friend, and he
requested to be permitted to look at it; he had scarcely seen it, when he
was convinced that it was one of the same description as those which had
brought me into trouble, as it corresponded with them in two particular
features, which the agent of the bank had pointed out to him and others
as evidence of their spuriousness. My friend, without a moment's
hesitation, informed the landlord that the note was a bad one, expressing
at the same time a great wish to see the Quaker gentleman who wanted to
have it changed. 'That you can easily do,' said the landlord, and
forthwith conducted him into the common room, where he saw a respectable-
looking man, dressed like a Quaker, and seemingly about sixty years of
age.
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