"Why, from Mrs.Clear, to be sure.

She visited at Jersey Street, and saw Wrent, and as Vrain was then with her in the character of her husband, she'll be able to tell us if they are two men or one person." "You are right, Link.

I never thought of that." "He! he! Then I can still teach you something," replied Link, in high good humour at having for once scored off the too clever barrister, and forthwith went off to see Mrs.Clear.
How this interview with that lady sped, or what she told him, he refused to reveal to Lucian; but its result was that a cypher appeared in the agony column of the _Daily Telegraph_, calling upon Wrent to meet her in the Silent House in Pimlico, under the penalty of her telling the police all she knew if he did not come.

In the same issue of the paper in which this message appeared there was a paragraph stating that Mrs.Vrain had been arrested at Dover..