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twelve months. The sister was wisely advised not to 

 administer to the estate until she knew where she was, as 

 there were Jews enough about his chambers in London to 

 make a row of hat pegs, had their noses been used for that 

 purpose, waiting to see what was going to happen. It so 

 happened, that after collecting all debts, there was enough 

 for everyone eventually, including the sister, and the matter 

 was wound up. But how were many of those debts in- 

 curred ? I hioio the facts to be true. The unfortunate 

 young fellow, being thoroughly good natured and unable to 

 say "No," ^^juinjKcl up hehincV — as he expressed it — or, in 

 other words, put his name to bills in India for several 

 hundreds for " one of my best friends in the world, my dear 

 fellow " (Jack or Tom Somebody), '' who had such a heavy 

 hook on the Derby that he got leave home for the purpose of 

 betting at the post.'' Of course the Jack or Tom Somebody 

 got the money, came home, sold out (being a soldier under 

 the old o-egime), and went to the Colonies; and when the 

 unfortunate victim applied to the family, and proved that 

 he had never received a farthing for himself^ the answer 

 was that they had paid too much already. His sister was 

 guilty of a pious theft ; and although warned that if she 

 took anything out of his chambers she would be liable as 

 executrix, she confessed that when she saw his medals for 

 the Indian mutiny she could not resist putting them in her 

 pocket, and I saw this close under my very nose, and 

 winked at it. I don't believe the hardest-hearted Jew in 

 Europe would have pressed that case, even in his own 

 interest. 



And now about these money-lenders. " Digby Grand " 

 simply applies to the army, so to the army we must stick in 

 quoting Whyte-Melville's sermon. Just imagine the 

 present state of things. The moment a young fellow is 

 gazetted he receives circulars from all the harpies in London, 



