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While I was hesitating, and wondering what my next proceeding had better be, my eye was attracted by a letter lying on the hall-table. The letter was directed to Nugent; and the post-mark was Liverpool. I drew the inevitable conclusion. The German oculist was in England! He crosses the Rubicon
When the noise abated, Dan raised his voice and said "If Burke had not interrupted me, I was going to have said that another thing which proves the letter to be no forgery is, that the post-mark of San Francisco is on the back of it, with the date all right."
The old cat, hearing his footsteps on the path, roused herself and went out to meet him, but for once he paid no heed to her, and passing into the house sat himself down in the chair by the window, while he still gazed with troubled eyes at the outside of the envelope, and the blurred post-mark which told him nothing.
"I had a letter from your aunt Maria this morning," she said, with an assumed indifference. "Yes; I noticed the Amity post-mark and Aunt Maria's writing," said Maria. Ida looked at her step-daughter, and for the first time in her life she hesitated. "I have something to say to you, Maria," she said, finally, in a nervous voice, so different from her usual one that Maria looked at her in surprise.
She simply nodded with the melancholy air of satisfaction of one who finds her preconceived ideas confirmed. "I knew it!" she exclaimed softly. "I knew it at the depot. Craig's time has not come yet. He may be somewhere near us, even now." She glanced uneasily around the ward. Quest, who had been examining the post-mark on the package, threw the papers down.
"This dropped while we were struggling." It was an empty envelope with a South American post-mark addressed: "Patrick Walenn, Simon's Hotel, Farrier Street, London." Again with that twitching in his heart, Keith said: "Put it in the fire." Then suddenly he stooped to pluck it out. By that command he had identified himself with this this But he did not pluck it out.
He chuckled as one emancipated. 'Rome. 'Let the post-mark be my reply to your letter received through the Consulate, and most courteously delivered with the Consul's compliments. We shall yet have an ambassador at Rome mark your Louisa's words. Yes, dearest! I am here, body and spirit!
True, the cost of doing so was twenty pounds: but what was that compared with the restoration of his good name? The letter bore the London post-mark. There was not a doubt that it had been there posted. That betrayed nothing. Arthur, or any one else, could have a letter posted there, if wishing to do it. "Where there's a will, there's a way," thought Mr. Galloway.
A few days after my last discomfiture, a letter reached me bearing the post-mark Stockholm, Sweden; which address did not surprise me because, while in Rome, I had been honored by the friendship of Thorwaldsen, the great Swedish sculptor, and I had often met in his studio many of his compatriots. Probably, therefore, this letter conveyed an order from one of them, sent through Thorwaldsen.
So profoundly did the Countess respect his advice that she graciously waived her maternal rights so far as actually following the text with her eyes went; while her daughter, after a little demur, was induced to depart this one step further from her husband's injunctions. "You have no objections to my glancing at the post-mark?" said Sir Justin when this point was settled.
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