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" This done, he watched, and
when nobody was looking, flung his letter, so weighted, over the gates;
he heard it fall on the public road.
Another day he secreted a spoonful of black currant preserve, diluted it
with a little water, and wrote a letter, and threw it into the road as
before: another day, hearing the Robin express disgust at the usage to
which he was now subjected, he drew him apart, and offered him a hundred
pounds to get him out. Now the ex-prizefighter was rather a
tender-hearted fellow, and a great detester of foul play. What he saw
made him now side heartily with Alfred; and all he wanted was to be
indemnified for his risk.
He looked down and said, "You see, sir, I have a wife and child to think
of."
Alfred offered him two hundred pounds.
"That is more than enough, sir," said the Robin; "but you see I can't do
it alone. I must have a pal in it. Could you afford as much to Garrett?
He is the likeliest; I've heard him say as much as that he was sick of
the business."
Alfred jumped at the proposal: he would give them two hundred apiece.


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