Portland Place.
H.V.

W.
Several times in reading this letter the tears stood in David's eyes.

So much trust and kindness made him momentarily sorry at the double life he was leading.

If it were possible to establish the death of the wastrel he was personating he would perhaps allow his "father" to live on in this new-found happiness; but if the real D.V.W.were alive some effort must be made to help him out of the slough--perhaps to bring him back.

He would try to find out through Frank Gardner.
Some time before Vivie Warren had taken her departure, she had left behind in Honoria Fraser's temporary care a Power of Attorney duly executed in favour of David Vavasour Williams; and reciprocally D.V.W.had executed another in favour of Vivien Warren.