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Lecount asked, 'Was there no postmark on the envelope? "Norah said, 'Yes; Allonby. "'Allonby is better than nothing, said Mrs. Lecount. 'Allonby may help you to trace her. Where is Allonby? "Norah told her. It all passed in a minute. I had been too much confused and startled to interfere before, but I composed myself sufficiently to interfere now.

"I burned it," replied Jekyll, "before I thought what I was about. But it bore no postmark. The note was handed in." "Shall I keep this and sleep upon it?" asked Utterson. "I wish you to judge for me entirely," was the reply. "I have lost confidence in myself." "Well, I shall consider," returned the lawyer.

They would have written Frank to urge it, but they both believed that to try to woo him away from his art was but to make him more wayward. That any woman could have power enough to take him away from this jealous mistress they very much doubted. But they could hope, and hope made them eager to open every letter that bore the French postmark.

"Look," he said, "I found that near the fireplace in the hall we went into first." "It's an old envelope," she said. "It must have belonged to the king they killed. How interesting! Fancy their having had envelopes in those days!" "The postmark on it," he said, "is London, and the date is December 15, 1913. Some one was in the house since then, living in it." The Queen clapped her hands.

So far it was all clear to the mind of Bagwax, and almost clear that the postmark could not have been made on the date it bore.

And yet, all these instances of fond and credulous Snobbishness have occurred in the same week's paper, with who knows how many score more? Just as we had concluded the above remarks comes a pretty little note sealed with a pretty little butterfly bearing a northern postmark and to the following effect: '19th November. 'Mr.

"Go into the hall," she said, "and see if there are any letters for me in the rack." There was a letter bearing the Swiss postmark. Simple Cecilia was flattered and delighted by the charming manner in which Francine had written to her. She looked forward with impatience to the time when their present acquaintance might ripen into friendship.

A few days ago we received the following lugubrious epistle, ostensibly from a parson in Worcestershire, as the envelope bore the postmark of Tything.

She was silent for a moment, and then spoke in her ordinary tone. "By the way, talking of letters, there was one came for you this morning in your cousin Philip's handwriting, and with a London postmark. Will you read it?" "Read it yes; anything from the father of my inamorata will be welcome." She fetched the letter and gave it him. He read it aloud.

Sheldon, as he turned the envelope about in his hands, staring at it absently. "I ought to make sure of that. The London postmark is nearly three weeks old." He pondered for some moments, and then went to the cupboard in which he kept the materials wherewith to replenish or to make a fire.