I afterwards reached a high position in the service of the government.

I acquired a great deal of skill in disguising myself, and in all the arts of the profession.
I could open and reseal a letter so that no change could be discovered in its appearance, and this was what I did in the service of Mr.Davis.
He was a mean man, the stingiest I ever met, and he was as dishonest and unscrupulous as a Paris thief.

I copied all the letters connected with the case I had in hand, and this enabled me to get to the bottom of the traitor's plot.

He wrote letters himself, not only to England and Scotland, but to people in the South, sending them to Bermuda and Nassau.

I took copies of all these, and saved one or two originals.
My pay was so small that I resigned my situation," and he flourished a great file of letters as he finished..