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stable keeper in Edgware Road, but who, in my eye, 

 had every appearance of a London thief. On hearing 

 Mr. Mytton say something of a draft or bill, I asked 

 this person what was the amount of his demand on 

 Mr. Mytton, when he replied, " Under loo/." To 

 cut this story short, then, I shall only state, that I 

 cautioned my friend against giving bills in a foreign 

 country, and also requested his old acquaintance, 

 Mr. Longden, then residing at Calais, to caution him 

 — for our suspicions were equally aroused — but we 

 were both equally repulsed with " Mind your own 

 business," or words to that effect ; and the rascal suc- 

 ceeded that evening, after he left my house, in getting 

 his signature to a bill for 200/. ! * And even this was 

 nearly being not the worst of it. A gang of swindlers, 

 of which this fellow was one, were in the town with 

 stamps suitable to 5000/., for which amount they 

 intetided to get him to sign bills, with the promise of 

 remitting him the money for them. 



But this was only the commencement of that me- 

 morable evening's work. After repairing to the hotel 



* The payment of this bill was stopped by placards in the streets of 

 London, in which the names of other gentlemen who had been swmdled 

 by the same party appeared. 



