She had told him of that in her letters, it seemed, but not about the money.

She had been keeping that back for the pleasure of telling him with her own lips, and seeing his face light up, she said to me, when he heard the good news.

I asked him about the letter which had come in the morning of the day she disappeared, and whether it was from him; but he said no, he had not written, counting upon being with his wife that evening.

It was only at the last moment he was prevented coming." "You have looked for that letter, I suppose ?" "O yes, sir; I searched, and Mr.Holbrook too, in every direction, but the letter wasn't to be found.

He seemed very vexed about it, very anxious to find it.