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UNITED STATES CONSULS.
Weeks passed, and I remained in Liverpool.

I had called several times at the consulate, and each time met with the same ungracious reception.

I could never see the consul, and began to regard him as a myth.

I did not then know that every time I called he was seated at his comfortable desk in a room elegantly furnished, which was entered from the ante-room occupied by his clerks.