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` I will keep the check , my lady , if you please . ' '' ` Then I will write it to order and not to bearer , ' replied she , ` and then if you lose it , it will not be paid , for it will require your own signature . ' '' ` Thank you , my lady , ' replied I. `` Having examined my accounts and my wages due , she gave me a check for the full amount . The next morning , the packet was to sail at nine o'clock . We were in good time , and as soon as Lady R -- was on board she went down into the cabin . Her maid asked me for the bottle of salts which I had purposely left under the sofa pillow at the Ship Hotel . I told her that I had left it , and as there was plenty of time would run and fetch it .