CHAPTER SIXTEENTo Be Answered
Dear Gamadge:
Annulment proceedings are under way, and there will be no difficulties. Bayles was guilty of felony before the marriage with Miss Seton, and during the whole term of the marriage, and in fact married her in the name of the man he was impersonating.
Let me have the address of this Mrs. Ordway she is staying with. I am glad she has found a friend to pay costs.
Well, you didn’t actually have to kill the fellow. Congratulations on the short cut.
Yours
Robert Macloud
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Henry Gamadge, Esq.
Dear Mr. Gamadge:
I am informed by the lady we knew as Mrs. Gray Austen that I may address a letter to you as her next friend. I wish to explain that I of course never had occasion to examine Bayles’s knee; that was a surgeon’s job, or would have been
