"And I can tell you how it happened.

Harry, do you remember the day that Nicolas was gone so long that you were uneasy about him?
Well, I knew where Nicolas was, for I had sent him off.

He thought he had found a messenger who would have more success in getting our letters mailed than had fallen to the lot of the messengers with our first two letters.

Nicolas's messenger, from to-day's developments, must have got through.

While I was sending one letter I thought it as well to send two.