' This threw me off guard, and I said I
supposed I had them, but I could not find them. And he
said eagerly--this was just on the church steps--`But I
can.'
"Then he said he had a carriage waiting, and he bade
me jump in.
"So soon as we were in the carriage he explained,
what I ought to have remembered, but could not then
recollect for the life of me, that after General Trebou
returned from Texas, there was a Court of Inquiry, and
that there was some question about these very supplies,
the beans and the coffee particularly; they had nothing
to do with the landing nor with the Mexicans. And the
Court of Inquiry sent over one day from the War
Department, where they were sitting, to our office for an
account, because we were said to have it. Mr.
Kuypers was their messenger to us, and because we had
bound them all together, the whole file was sent as it
was. He took them, and as it happened, he looked them
over, and what was better, he remembered them. Where our
receipt is, Heaven knows!
"Well, that Court of Inquiry was endless, as those
army inquiries always are. Mr. Kuypers was in attendance
all the time. He says he never shall forget it, if other
people do.
"So, as soon as he saw that we were in trouble at the
bureau--that I was in trouble, I mean," said Mr.
Molyneux, stoutly, "he knew that he knew what nobody else
knew,--that the vouchers were in the papers of that Court
of Inquiry.
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