Now that he was upon the spot, Mr.Yates could still serve him, both in a friendly and in a professional way.

The first service he could render him was to forward to him autograph letters from the hands of two men deceased.

He wished to verify the signatures of these men, he said, but as they were both dead, he, of course, could not apply to them.
Yates did not doubt that there was mischief in this request.

He guessed what it was, and he kept the letter; but after a few days he secured the desired autographs, and forwarded them to Mr.Belcher, who filed them away with the document above referred to.

After that, the great proprietor, as a relief from the severe pursuits of his life, amused himself by experiments with inks and pens, and pencils, and with writing in a hand not his own, the names of "Nicholas Johnson" and "James Ramsey.".