I put Shorty Rumbold on as guard, and Shorty" "Where's Shorty?" "Went to the Starlight for a drink.

" Entered then Shorty Rumbold, a tall, lean-bodied man with a twinkling eye and a square chin.

" "I don't, either," Shorty Rumbold admitted, frankly.

" "Recognize any of the voices?" Shorty Rumbold shook his head.

On the subject of Sir W. Rumbold he and Sir Ch.

Read Sir W. Rumbold's letters, and the minutes in Council on the Hyderabad case.

Metcalfe shows too much prejudice against Sir W. Rumbold; but he was at Hyderabad at the time, and he may be right.

Wrote to the Duke to tell him I had not yet received the Duke of Devonshire's memorandum respecting Sir W. Rumbold, and that in the meantime I was getting into as small a compass as possible the information he desired.

I added that the liberation of the Nizam changed our position with respect to Sir W. Rumbold, and I should be glad to speak to him about it.

A second (a Mr. Rumbold) was willing to give every freeman £35; and his offer was accepted by the committee, who, however, cautioned him that no freeman was entitled to the money who was not a member of the Christian Club.

Roberts had himself been a member of the Christian Club, but had quarrelled with it, and on the day of the election, as Rumbold's voters came up, he administered to each of them the oath against bribery.

They took it without scruple; but he took it on himself to pronounce seventy-six of them disqualified, and to refuse their votes; and, having thus reduced Mr. Rumbold's voters to eleven, he returned Mr. Purling as duly elected.

Mr. Rumbold, not unnaturally, petitioned against such a return; when Mr. Roberts admitted the facts alleged against him, but pleaded that he had acted under the advice of counsel, who had assured him that it was within his own discretion to admit or to refuse any votes that might be tendered, and that he might lawfully refuse any "which in his own mind he thought illegal."

R73812, 2Feb51, Zoë Akins Rumbold (A) ALABAMA.

SEE Rumbold, Zoe Akins. ALABAMA.

SEE Rumbold, Zoe Akins. ATKINSON, AGNES AKIN.

SEE RUMBOLD, ZOE AKINS.

SEE RUMBOLD, ZOE AKINS.

R73812, 2Feb51, Zoë Akins Rumbold (A) ALABAMA.

SEE Rumbold, Zoe Akins. ALABAMA.

SEE Rumbold, Zoe Akins. ATKINSON, AGNES AKIN.

Lawyers Cooperative Pub. Co. & Bancroft-Whitney Co. (PCW); 8Jun64; R339290. RUMBOLD, ZOE AKINS.

SEE Rumbold, Zoe Akins. ALABAMA.

Elizabeth Rugg (W); 14Dec64; R351136. RUMBOLD, ZOE AKINS.

Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. & Bancroft-Whitney Co. (PWH); 23Dec68; R453162. RUMBOLD, ZOE AKINS.