He saw it was from Honora and, before he read it, he said sharply,
“Tell that man to wait!”
“You’d better come inside,” James said to him.
The man stepped back before he replied,
“I’ll be waitin’ out ’ere and if ’is Nibs don’t agree, I’ll be orf!”
The Duke ignored what he said and started reading slowly what Honora had written to him.
His lips tightened as he did so.
Then he opened the other letter, which was in a different handwriting.
It was, however, written on the same type of cheap paper as Honora’s but in an uneducated hand and there were several blots of ink on it.
He read,
“Come alone with the messenger. If you talks to the Police, you’ll never see your wife again.”
The Duke read it through and then said to James,
“Order my carriage and be quick about it! Tell the man w
