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of the load which his bad deeds
have piled upon it.

You will
be glad to hear that the other night
one of our intelligent men here
(Panton) who was Gold Commissioner
in the early days and is now P.A.
came to hear how I had dealt
with the Gold Discovery and was
extremely pleased. He wondered
how I could have found out
some things that I seemed to
know: and said I had made
it very interesting. He did not
go to sleep while I read, which
was something, inasmuch as there
could be but little with which
he was unacquainted, although
he had never seen the facts
put consistently together before,
so as to trace various effects to
their causes.

I see what Parkes is at.
All these fellows are like gamblers
who when they dont [sic] win want
to smash the tables. He has always
been opposed to a nominee house