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was necessary that there should be four men in the service, all good
and true; and men require to be well paid for such goodness and truth.
There was the man, himself an ex-policeman, who gave the instructions
to the first cabman, as he was starting. The cabman would not undertake
the job at all unless he were so instructed on the spot, asserting that
in this way he would be able to prove that the orders he obeyed came
from the lady's husband. And there was the crafty pseudo-waiter, with
the napkin and no hat, who had carried the boy to the cab in which his
father was sitting. And there were the two cabmen. Bozzle planned it
all, and with some difficulty arranged the preliminaries. How
successful was the scheme, we have seen; and Bozzle, for a month, was
able to assume a superiority over his wife, which that honest woman
found to be very disagreeable.
'There ain't no fraudulent abduction in it at all,' Bozzle exclaimed,
'because a wife ain't got no rights again her husband, not in such a
matter as that.


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