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Burdett to cross-examine the ladies on their somewhat 

 forlorn position. They told him that their post-boy had 

 left them for St. Albans to get fresh cattle, and had 

 been gone two hours — no doubt having elected to get 

 brandy for himself instead. Meanwhile there they were 

 — and in a very deplorable plight surely. But will it be 



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Old Inn, St. Albans. 



believed that this heart-moving vision of beauty in dis- 

 tress did not move the guard of the Liverpool Mail in 

 the least ! No ! He proceeded stolidly in the plain 

 path which is duty's — a fact which tends to the suspicion 

 that the ladies cannot have been beauties. But whether 

 they were or no, Burdett, after having heard their story, 

 turned a deaf ear to their appeals for help. He just 



