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298 pounds, and I tipped the clerk recklessly. He was thereupon much impressed with my case, and promised to do all he could to help me.

The driver was a big, burly fellow, with a red nose, and a florid, bull-dog face. My heart sank when I saw him. Heaven help all who have to depend upon so sottish a class of people for important information. He had great trouble in remembering the fact that he had taken anybody from the hotel at nine o'clock the evening before.

"Think! think! man," I cried frantically.

"If you will remember everything, and tell me what I want to know, I’ll give you this."

I held up a ten-dollar bill before him, and his eyes flashed with eager desire through the heavy, drunken film that covered them, as he saw the money. He sat down, stopped chewing the tobacco which he had been masticating vigorously and attempted to think, with a brutish effort. Then he referred to a little book that he carried in his pocket, and in a few minutes a ray of something distantly related to intelligence lighted up his features.

"The gen'lman told me ter take him to the