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On the following Monday morning, the post brought two letters for him, both addressed in female hand, one bearing a city, the other a country, post-mark. Waymark smiled as he compared the two envelopes, on one of which his name stood in firm, upright characters, on the other in slender, sloping, delicate writing.
A letter arrived for my father yesterday evening, bearing the Fordingbridge post-mark. My father read it, clapped both his hands to his head, and began running round the room in little circles like a man who has been driven out of his senses. When I at last drew him down on to the sofa, his mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he had a stroke. Dr.
Then came a letter with the Amber Guiting post-mark, and in a handwriting he did not know a funny little, clear, square handwriting with character in every stroke. He opened it and read: "DEAR MR. LEDGARD, "It is just possible you may have heard of me from Mrs.
This statement delighted the crowd immensely, and caused Burke to look disconcerted for a few seconds; he rallied, however, and returned to the charge. "Post-marks! wot do I care for post-marks? Can't a man forge a post-mark as easy as any other mark?" "Ah! that's true," from a voice in the crowd.
"But there would be a post-mark on the envelop," he replied; "I will make him show me the envelop they were in." "Jack," I said, "you do not suppose he has any doubt of her death?" "I can't say," he answered. "You see he has married again, and if she were not dead that would be bigamy an ugly sort of crime. But are you sure they are married?" "How can I be sure?"
We had several hours still to wait for the arrival of the post. For both of us the delay was a suspense; for me an almost agonising one. At length, at an unlooked-for moment, Branston did enter the room with the post-bag. There was a large letter, with the Feltram post-mark, addressed to Lady Knollys it was Doctor Bryerly's despatch; we read it together.
But she looked at the post-mark again and saw to her surprise that it had a United States stamp, and the place stamped on the envelope was one she knew nothing whatever about, El Monte, California. "Look at this," she cried, running to Ellen. "Who do we know in California?" "Why, what in the world?" asked Ellen in bewilderment. "I've got a perfectly horrible one from the very same place."
The firm had no dealings with any firm at Wilchester. Stoner, who dealt with all the Mallalieu & Cotherstone correspondence, knew that during his five and a half years' clerkship, he had never addressed a single letter to any one at Wilchester, never received a single letter bearing the Wilchester post-mark.
But I would not show that letter to anyone else than Beauchamp," added Mr. Carlyle, "neither would I speak of it." "Who can have written it?" repeated the justice. "It bears, you see the London Post-mark." "It is too wide a speculation to enter upon. And no satisfactory conclusion could come of it." Justice Hare departed. Mr.
But she need not have feared; there were no facts told, unless the vague date of 'London' might be something to learn. Even that much might have been found out by the post-mark, only she had been too much taken by surprise to examine it. It ran as follows: 'Tell those whom it may concern, that I have left Monkshaven for ever. No one need trouble themselves about me; I am provided for.
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