The arrest of notorious forger Abraham Van Esselyn,alias Thomas Thompson, was a triumph for the bank officers. at the tt of their delivery which, curiously, had not been; at him but in the direction of the door. he least keen that the notorious Ikey Solomon's patronageof the same facility be known to the public at large. but who had, as isusually the case, feared the worst rumours circulated onboard during the voyage.
The sight of the two Irishmen stuck with their short legs dangling down the sides of the horses struck him as so funny that he doubled over with laughter. Degraves looked surprised. He untied the twine and removed the wrapping fromaround the engraving. o Mary,she had never been christened and her own surnamead not served her particularly well in the past.
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