Can we not make this a trap to catch him, sir?
_He_ has no scruples." Oldfield looked at her in some surprise at her depth.
"We must get hold of his handwriting," said he.

"We must ransack the local banks; find his correspondents." "Leave all that to me," said Lady Bassett, in a low voice.
Mr.Oldfield thought he might as well please a beautiful and loving woman, if he could; so he gave her something to do for her husband.
"Very well; collect all the materials of comparison you can--letters, receipts, etc.

Meantime I will retain the two principal experts in London, and we will submit your materials to them the night before the trial." Lady Bassett, thus instructed, drove to all the banks, but found no clerk acquainted with Mr.Bassett's handwriting.

He did not bank with anybody in the county.
She called on several persons she thought likely to possess letters or other writings of Richard Bassett.

Not a scrap.
Then she began to fear.