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as aforesaid, and I am sure that I had not afterwards taken them out, for any purpose.
The serutore, when I discover’d my loss, was in the same state in which I had left it when I put the drafts into it in his presence, excepting that one of the notes was taken out. It was one of the 2 Treasury orders, namely that of 5000 CR.
As I knew that nobody had been in my writing room since the prisr was there, and that no one else cod know that the Drat was in the serutore, I was morally sure