You will understand my request, when I add that these lines relate to the matter of tracing the stolen bank-note.
"I have been privately in communication with a person in London, who is, as I believe, the one person competent to help us in gaining our end.
He has already made many inquiries in private.

With some of them I am acquainted; the rest he has thus far kept to himself.

The person to whom I allude, particularly wishes to have half an hour's conversation with you in my presence.

I am bound to warn you that he is a very strange and very ugly old man; and I can only hope that you will look over his personal appearance in consideration of what he is likely to do for your future advantage.
"Can you conveniently meet us, at the further end of the row of villas in which your aunt lives, the day after to-morrow, at four o'clock?
Let me have a line to say if you will keep the appointment, and if the hour named will suit you.

And believe me your devoted friend and servant, "ROBERT MOODY." The lawyer's warning to her to be careful how she yielded too readily to any proposal of Moody's recurred to Isabel's mind while she read those lines.