It seemed to us to be a postscript at the end of the letter and it said: 'Please, please, as you are a gentleman, burn this letter, and be at the gate by ten o clock.

Beneath it were signed the initials L.L." "Have you got that slip ?" "No, sir, it crumbled all to bits after we moved it." "Had Sir Charles received any other letters in the same writing ?" "Well, sir, I took no particular notice of his letters.

I should not have noticed this one, only it happened to come alone." "And you have no idea who L.L.

is ?" "No, sir.

No more than you have.