He went himself to Sir Gregory, and explained, not only his own circumstances, and his former friendship with Alaric Tudor, but also the relationship between Alaric and Charley.

He then learnt, in the strictest confidence of course, that the doom of the Internal Navigation had just been settled, and that it would be necessary to place in other offices those young men who could in any way be regarded as worth their salt, and, after considerable manoeuvring, had it so arranged that the ne'er-do-well young navvy should recommence his official life under better auspices.
Nor did Charley come in at the bottom of his office, but was allowed, by some inscrutable order of the great men who arranged those things, to take a position in the Weights and Measures equal in seniority and standing to that which he had held at the Navigation, and much higher, of course, in pay.

There is an old saying, which the unenlightened credit, and which declares that that which is sauce for the goose is sauce also for the gander.
Nothing put into a proverb since the days of Solomon was ever more untrue.

That which is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander, and especially is not so in official life.

Poor Screwy was the goose, and certainly got the sauce best suited to him when he was turned adrift out of the Civil Service.