He then showed her--actually showed her--her unfortunate father's letter; put into her hands another letter directed to me; bowed, and walked off; leaving her half dead with astonishment and terror.

If I had only happened to be there at the time!" says Mr.Frank, shaking his fist murderously in the air, by way of a finish.
"It's the greatest luck in the world that you were not," says I."Have you got that other letter ?" He handed it to me.

It was so remarkably humorous and short, that I remember every word of it at this distance of time.

It began in this way: _"To Francis Gatliffe, Esq., Jun._ "SIR--I have an extremely curious autograph letter to sell.

The price is a five-hundred-pound note.