"I was astounded. I then asked him if he knew a convict of the name of Welland.
"'Do I know him?' said the man. 'Do I know the governor, or the chief-justice? Do you want to see him?'
"I replied I did.
"'Come along then,' said he, 'I want a little walk; and he led the way across a very fine street, called George Street, and up a hill, and past the governor's castle, and so along the parks and garden beyond, and then he stopped at a grand gate with a grand lodge, and said, 'Here lives your man.'
"I stood in astonishment. 'Can it be true?' I said.
"'How long has he been out?' asked the man.
"Something like fourteen years," I replied.
"'Just so,' said he; 'and has he a very little wife?'
"A very great one," I said.
"'That's your man then,' he rejoined, and he bowed and bade me good day.