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Durwan to search, as privately as he could, every servant & belonging to the house who should after go out.
About 7 in the evening, some of the servants came & told me that the watch was found upon the Prisoner. I went down & spoke to the Prisoner, he did not to me confess the fact, but I think I heard him say, sometime after when he was going away under charge of Peons, that one of the Sercars gave it to him. He named Baichoo Sercar (alias Baicheram). But I do not believe that Sercar had been in my room between the time of