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foundations of an old fort built by the Portuguese in 1497. Adey
always had his eye on the main chance, and he was sending the
chair as a present to Sir Bryan Martin, the Comptroller of the
Navy. This was the last time that Loch set eyes on Adey, but
lie did hear about some of his subsequent exploits.
Adey went again to England and introduced himself to the
family of a naval officer, claiming that he and the officer had been
very great friends in India. He ingratiated himself into the good
graces of the officer’s sister, and eventually persuaded her to marry
him. She was a widow with a jointure of £400 a year, quite a
comfortable income in those days. Adey managed to obtain
most of her money before they parted.
The last which Loch heard of the curious history of ‘the little
Greek’ was, when reading an account of the first part of the
Burma war. He saw in a newspaper the name of ‘the poor in­
fatuated Greek’ among the list of men who were liberated from
the dungeons of Rangoon. Loch completes his story of Adey
with the words: ‘where he is now, God knows. If in the land
of the living, he is, in all probability, existing on his wits as he
has done throughout his life.’

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