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her method was to press open a newspaper, lying for 

 delivery or despatch, and insert the candle in the 

 folds. 



This impromptu candlestick enabled her to compass 

 some of the mysteries of the toilet ; and it was firmly 

 believed by the stampers and clerks that on the night 

 of a fire, which actually did break out in the Devon- 

 port office, she had left the candle burning in the 

 newspaper on closing the office. 



Large placards were issued offering a reward of fifty 

 pounds for the discovery of persons supposed to have 

 flung lighted matches into the letter-box. But not a 

 single person on the establishment breathed a sus- 

 picion. All were loyal to ' Sister.' It was not until 

 after her death, many years later, that an old official 

 cleared up the mystery. 



The traveller may still encounter the inns of the 

 old days on the great Cornish road to Falmouth and 

 the Land's End. If Kelly's House, the first stage out 

 of Launceston, is no longer an inn, but a factory, the 

 King's Head at Five Lanes stands as of yore — a solid, 

 square-set building, unchanged by sixty years of rest- 

 ful ease. Jamaica Inn, now a temperance hotel, was 

 built by a retired Jamaica settler. Because of its 

 erection at a spot where the great road traverses a 

 desolate moor, the good folk of Altarnum, hard by, said 

 it was ' a bould ventur.' In course of time a village 

 sprang up around the inn, and ' a bould ventur ' gave 

 place to the good Cornish name of Bolventor. Should 



