But, of course, I would not claim it; and it went after all to him for whom it was intended.
There was actually there a Mr.Charles Archer, dying of a decline.

Three respectable English residents had made his acquaintance, knowing nothing of him but that he was a sick countryman.

When I learned all about it, I, too, got an introduction to him; and when he died, I prevailed with one of them to send a note signed by himself and two more to the London lawyer who was pursuing me, simply stating that Charles Archer had died in Florence, to their knowledge, they having seen him during his last illness, and attended his funeral.
'I told them that he had begged me to see this done, as family affairs made it necessary; 'twas as well to use the event--and they did it without difficulty.

I do not know how the obituary announcement got into the newspapers--it was not my doing--and naming him as the evidence in the prosecution of my Lord Dunoran was a great risk, and challenged contradiction, but none came.

Sir Philip Drayton was one of the signatures, and it satisfied the attorney.
'When I came to Chapelizod, though, I soon found that the devil had not done with me, and that I was like to have some more unpleasant work on my hands.