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"MY DEAR NOEL--Here are two plain questions at starting. In the name of
all that is mysterious, what are you hiding for? And why is everything
relating to your marriage kept an impenetrable secret from your oldest
friends?
"I have been to Aldborough to try if I could trace you from that place,
and have come back as wise as I went. I have applied to your lawyer in
London, and have been told, in reply, that you have forbidden him to
disclose the place of your retreat to any one without first receiving
your permission to do so. All I could prevail on him to say was, that
he would forward any letter whic
