"Did you notice it was a colored man who gave our friend Joblots his letters at the post office?" he asked.
I replied that I had been surprised to see that the residents of a town in Jersey had a negro postmaster.
"Oh! he's only an assistant. But you'd be surprised still more if you realized his real character."
"Would I?"
"Because everyone knows he's a blackmailer."
"That's serious, isn't it?"
"And it isn't the worst, either."
"Why, he must be a hard citizen—what else does he do?"
