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returned this ["F, 2"] in answer thereto.

A. I believe I received a letter of which
that ["F, 1"] is a copy. This ["F, 2"] was
the answer in reply to it. It was not
written by me.

Q. 175 Was it written by your authority?

A. Yes: by my brother, the assistant
secretary of the company.

Q. 176 During the time that the defend=
=ant used those schooners in the transport=
=ation of coal for your company, after their
purchase by him, were they used for
the profit or loss of the corporation or of the
defendant?

A. Not for the corporation's.

Q. 177 Do you know anything of your own
knowledge about the arrangement that
was made by the defendant with the
plaintiff, or with the parties who sup=
=plied the coal, as to the transportation?

A. I do not.

Q. 178 I understand you to say that you
do not know anything in relation to the
nature of the defendant's employment by
the plaintiff.

A. I do not think I said that.

Q. 179 I will ask you, then, if you know
the nature of the contract, if any there

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