If you have
made the discovery--and if you are quite sure of not having drawn the
attention either of Mrs. Lecount or her master to yourself--I wish you
to arrange immediately for my residing (with you and Mrs. Wragge) in the
same town or village in which Mr. Noel Vanstone has taken up his abode.
I write this, it is hardly necessary to say, under the impression that,
wherever he may now be living, he is settled in the place for some
little time.
"If you can find a small furnished house for me on these conditions
which is to be let by the month, take it for a month certain to begin
with. Say that it is for your wife, your niece, and yourself, and use
any assumed name you please, as long as it is a name that can be trusted
to defeat the most suspicious inquiries. I leave this to your experience
in such matters. The secret of who we really are must be kept as
strictly as if it was a secret on which our lives depend.
"Any expenses to which you may be put in carrying out my wishes I will
immediately repay. If you easily find the sort of house I want, there
is no need for your returning to London to fetch us. We can join you as
soon as we know where to go.
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