Who do you think wrote that anonymous letter to your daughter?
A friend of truth?
a friend of injured innocence?
Nothing of the sort.

One Richard Bassett--Sir Charles's cousin.

Here, Mr.Oldfield, please compare these two handwritings closely, and you will see I am right." She put down the anonymous letter and Richard Bassett's letter to herself; but she could not wait for Mr.Oldfield to compare the documents, now her tongue was set going.

"Yes, gentlemen, this is new to you; but you'll find that little scheming rascal wrote them both, and with as base a motive and as black a heart as any other anonymous coward's.

His game is to make Sir Charles Bassett die childless, and so then this dirty fellow would inherit the estate; and owing to you being so green, and swallowing an anonymous letter like pure water from the spring, he very nearly got his way.