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Every morning and evening the fleet little Morgans came tearing in from Pride's Fall with the big leather mail-bag, which bore Portlaw's initials in metal, bulging with letters, newspapers, magazines for Portlaw; and now and then a slim envelope for him from his aunt, or letters, bearing the Palm Beach post-mark, from contractors on the Cardross estate, or from his own superintendent.
It says in substance: "Your ticket has drawn a prize of $200," the letters all name the same amount "but you didn't pay for it; and therefore are not entitled to it. Now send me $10 and I will cheat the lottery-man by altering the post-mark of your letter so that the money shall seem to have been sent before the lottery was drawn.
The horror of that last vision awoke him. It was late, and he had only time to get his letter posted and to hurry to his office. But Jim could not rest, till in the course of a few days a letter arrived with the Leeds post-mark.
But no: the London post-mark bore date "Aug. 1." The letter had been received and delivered at Polpier on the 2nd, and had been lying in the bank letter-box for two whole days. He broke the seal in some trepidation: for he had spent the last sixty hours or so of national emergency on a visit with Mrs Pamphlett to her brother-in-law, a well-to-do farmer, who dwelt some twelve miles inland.
Madame Hubert, who was as little of a scholar as her aunt-in-law was, had never paid much attention to the post-marks on the envelopes; and the only one that she did remember was the first, that contained a bank-note, and that post-mark was "Vienna." "But did not Madame Marigny's letters ever give you an address to which to write with news of her child?"
She would have a face which pleased by its homely goodness; she would speak in a gentle voice, waiting upon superior wisdom. A few days before that appointed for the first lecture of this new course, Egremont received a letter of which the address surprised him. It bore the Penrith post-mark; the writing must be Annabel's. He had very recently written to Mr.
Post-marks now-a-days are very clear, and everybody may know whence a letter comes. His letters had been brought to him by the butler; but was it not probable that that ancient female servant might have seen them first, and have conveyed to her mistress intelligence as to this post-mark? If so ; and Mr. Furnival almost felt himself to be guilty as he thought of it.
Down he clapped it on the table by her plate, mounted into his chair again, and resumed the interrupted business of the hour. Mrs. Carnegie glanced aside at the letter, read the post-mark, and reflected aloud: "Norminster who can be writing to us from Norminster? Some of Bessie's people?" "The shortest way would be to open the letter and see. Hand it over to me," said the doctor.
Not being a public man, Soames had never yet had an anonymous letter, and his first impulse was to tear it up, as a dangerous thing; his second to read it, as a thing still more dangerous. "I feel it my duty to inform you that having no interest in the matter your lady is carrying on with a foreigner " Reaching that word Soames stopped mechanically and examined the post-mark.
It was Saturday morning, and he had come down to breakfast, after being knocked about as usual in the dormitory over night, with a dull wonder how long this horrible state of things could possibly be going to last, when he saw on his plate a letter with the Paddington post-mark, addressed in a familiar hand his daughter Barbara's. For an instant his hopes rose high.
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