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expression of countenance, soft voice and gentle confiding manner. 
A sneak, and absolutely untrustworthy. When fully aroused, may be 
violent and even dangerous. An excellent worker in dining-room 
and laundry, understanding thoroughly the machines in use. An 
adroit thief and an accomplished liar. On one occasion when he 
was preparing for a visit home, a twenty-dollar note belonging to 
one of his attendants disappeared. Prior to leaving the house the 
boy was carefully searched but nothing was found. Within ten 
minutes, on his way to the station, he was recalled for another ex- 
amination and stripped to his shoes and stockings, I even running 
my hands over the latter without detecting anything. As he left the 
room, with tears and protestations of innocence, he could not resist 
giving me a sly, shifting look, and a glance at his leg. Turning down 
the stocking, there, plastered to the leg, the money was found. 

Stamps, paper, pens, and pen-holders disappeared from my desk 
and could not be traced. Some eight years after, searching his box 
for something, these were found securely packed away under a false 
bottom. The singular part of it all was that my office was inacces- 
sible, and in all these years he never had been seen anywhere in the 
building. These are only examples of his many depredations. 

Family history indefinite, except that the father, an old man who 
had married a young imbecile woman died of old age 2 years after 
child's birth. The boy himself, when 2 years of age, was run over