2/21 I have your letter here, Mr -- " "It is not necessary to know my name," said Jeffreys. Of course, as you say you were at Bolsover School with Forrester, and were the cause of his accident, it is hardly worth while making a mystery of it." "I forgot that. My name is John Jeffreys." "Thank you. It is a very proper thing of you to offer to assist us in our search, and I shall be glad if in the end you should become entitled to the reward which has been offered." "I would not touch a farthing of it," said Jeffreys, with a scorn that astonished the lawyer. |