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affable and polite, it was reported that he 

 carried a brace of loaded pistols about 

 with him, in his breast pocket. 



" Indeed ! " said the Secretary to the 

 Treasury, for such he was ; " for what 

 purpose, in God's name, did he do that ? " 



"To shoot the first man he met 

 prouder than himself/' I replied. 



At this he smiled complacently, assuring 

 me that he should certainly take the first 

 opportunity of making known to the 

 Commissioner the information he had 

 thus acquired. 



