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join you.’
Rex shrugged his shoulders and walked away. ‘If you
think to get any good out of that ‘inquiry’, you are mightily
mistaken,’ said he, as he went. ‘Frere has put a stopper upon
that, you’ll find.’ He spoke truly. Nothing more was heard of
it, only that, some six months afterwards, Mr. North, when
at Parramatta, received an official letter (in which the ex-
penditure of wax and printing and paper was as large as it
could be made) which informed him that the ‘Comptrol-
ler-General of the Convict Department had decided that
further inquiry concerning the death of the prisoner named
in the margin was unnecessary’, and that some gentleman
with an utterly illegible signature ‘had the honour to be his
most obedient servant”.

For the Term of His Natural Life