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once too often ; he swindled one of the officers with 

 whom he w T as so intimate at the garrison. This officer 

 reported it to me and I prevailed on him to allow me 

 to prosecute. He did so and the upshot was that the 

 man without a name was convicted and sentenced to 

 six months hard labour ; during which time he en- 

 joyed the hospitality of the government under the 

 care of Mr. Harley, the superintendent of Her 

 Majesty's Royal Gaol. The honour of sending him 

 there fell to Mr. Mayne who was then S. J. P. of Port- 

 of-Spain. I mention these two names because they 

 were afterwards claimed by our adventurer as inti- 

 mate friends and social equals. When released from 

 gaol he went to Barbados. 



On his arrival there he was not long in getting an 

 introduction to Colonel Clements, the head of the 

 police. Here it was that he met Gray. Colonel 

 Clements had asked both of them to dine with him. 

 He must have soon spotted Gray as a probable 

 victim. Be this as it may, he was not long in gather- 

 ing many facts about the telephone which Gray had 

 recently erected in Port-of-Spain, and he informed 

 him that he had just come from there. Gray asked 

 him ' ' Did you know Garcia ? or Mayne ? or Harley ? 

 or Baker ? etc." Oh ! yes he knew them all inti- 

 mately. He did not think much of Mayne, he was a 

 pigheaded, bumptious, dogmatic prig ; there was no 

 use trying to argue or reason with him, he doggedly 

 stuck to his opinions — this alluded to his inability to 

 convince Mayne of his innocence. Harley was a 

 good fellow, he liked him very much, he frequently 



