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"One?"

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"His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual writing, and yet I know it well."

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"Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Wait in patience.

"Neville.

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Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's hand, madam?"

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"None. Neville wrote those words."

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"And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the danger is over."

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"But he must be alive, Mr.


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