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spent in careful examination, his report was that
they were all forgeries except two or three which
seemed doubtful. I was not deported and lived
to hear, when some years had passed, that the
wretched author of the plot had died a horrible
death caused by cancer in the mouth. It reminded
me of some lines of Horace read at Cambridge in
1887 : " Rarely has the halting foot of Retribution
failed to overtake the criminal."