After some hesitation he dressed, and rang for the servant.
“That roll of paper,” said he, when she appeared, “lay on my chair when I woke. It was not there last night, and it does not belong to me. How it came there I know not. The papers appear to be bank-notes. You had better take them to your master, and inquire whether any person in the house has lost them.”
The girl looked surprised; but took them up, and followed his advice.
Very soon after Colin heard a hue and cry raised below-stairs; and after a few minutes, a rush of people towards his room.
“Is this him?” demanded a man, with a belt round his body, and a glazed rim on the edge of his hat-crown.
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“That's him!” replied the servant-girl. “He gave them to me.”