Then her face indicated a new effort.

She could think of only one way of disguising her hand in cursive--the common device of sloping it backwards.

This she attempted.

The result failing to please her, she tried again on a second envelope, and this time with success; the writing looked masculine, and in no respect suggested its true authorship.

She had addressed the letter to Dyce Lashmar, Esq., at Rivenoak.
Nine o'clock next morning saw her out of doors.