A month or six weeks! Mr.Hazlewood took up his pen and wrote the letter to Henry Thresk at last, as Robert Pettifer had always been sure that he would do.

It was the simplest kind of letter and took but a minute in the writing.

It mentioned only his miniatures and invited Henry Thresk to Little Beeding to see them, as more than one stranger had been asked before.

The answers which Thresk had given to the questions in _Notes and Queries_ were pleaded as an introduction and Thresk was invited to choose his own day and remain at Little Beeding for the night.

The reply came by return of post.