He asked me to buy it, but what he wanted it for I do not know.

He had it some days before Christmas, and, I believe, gave it to Mrs.Clear, and afterwards to the girl Rhoda.

But of this I am not sure." "Who is Wrent ?" asked Denzil, reserving the most important question for the last.
"Wrent ?" said Ferruci, smiling in a sneering way.

"Ah! you wish to know who Wrent is?
Well, excuse me for a few minutes, and I'll bring you something to show who he is." With a nod to Lucian he passed into his bedroom, leaving the barrister much astonished.

He thought that Ferruci was Wrent himself, and had gone away to resume the disguise of wig and beard.