For aught we know he may be in England already." Mr.Wilding laughed impatiently.

"You must forever be building on these crack-brained rumours, Nick," said he.
"Rumours!" roared the other.

"Rumours?
Ha!" He checked his wild scorn, and proceeded in a different key.

"I was forgetting.

You do not know the Contents of that stolen letter." Wilding started.