And there was the letter--two letters--and not a board creaked or a footstep sounded before he was safe back in his own room with the documentary evidence before him.
There was only one letter after all.

The other paper was a rubbishing rigmarole about General Monk and the Parliament 1660.

This Jonah tossed contemptuously into the grate.

But the other letter, how his flesh crept as he read it! It had no date, and was signed only in initials.
"Dear J.

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