"That will do." So saying, he opened the door, and Bozzle, with a bow, took his departure.

"What on earth am I to do?
How am I to save her ?" said the wretched husband, appealing to his friend.
Stanbury endeavoured with all his eloquence to prove that this latter piece of information from the spy must be incorrect.

If such a letter had been written by Mrs.Trevelyan to Colonel Osborne, it must have been done while he, Stanbury, was staying at the Clock House.

This seemed to him to be impossible; but he could hardly explain why it should be impossible.

She had written to the man before, and had received him when he came to Nuncombe Putney.