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Chapter 16

           

           TheConstablesandtheBowStreetmenfromLondonfor,thishappenedinthedaysoftheextinctred-waistcoatedpolicewereaboutthehouseforaweekortwo,anddidprettymuchwhatIhaveheardandreadoflikeauthoritiesdoinginothersuchcases.Theytookupseveralobviouslywrongpeople,andtheyrantheirheadsveryhardagainstwrongideas,andpersistedintryingtofitthecircumstancestotheideas,insteadoftryingtoextractideasfromthecircumstances.Also,theystoodaboutthedooroftheJollyBargemen,withknowingandreservedlooksthatfilledthewholeneighborhoodwithadmiration;andtheyhadamysteriousmanneroftakingtheirdrink,thatwasalmostasgoodastakingtheculprit.Butnotquite,fortheyneverdidit.

           Longaftertheseconstitutionalpowershaddispersed,mysisterlayveryillinbed.Hersightwasdisturbed,sothatshesawobjectsmultiplied,andgraspedatvisionaryteacupsandwineglassesinsteadoftherealities;herhearingwasgreatlyimpaired;hermemoryalso;andherspeechwasunintelligible.When,atlast,shecameroundsofarastobehelpeddownstairs,itwasstillnecessarytokeepmyslatealwaysbyher,thatshemightindicateinwritingwhatshecouldnotindicateinspeech.Asshewas(verybadhandwritingapart)amorethanindifferentspeller,andasJoewasamorethanindifferentreader,extraordinarycomplicationsarosebetweenthemwhichIwasalwayscalledintosolve.

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