Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department

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No "Ear-Biters" employed--The Commission--A whole School robbed--Value of a "quarter"--Embargo on Trunks--Unjust Suspicion--The dying Mother--Fidelity of Post Masters--A venerable pair of Officials--President Pierce assists--A clue to the Robberies--The Quaker Coat--An insane Traveler--The Decoy Letters--Off the Road--The dancing Horse--The Decoy missing--An official Visit by night--Finding the marked Bills--The Confession--The Arrest Page 25