Lecount. After reading
this general statement, you will naturally be interested in possessing
your mind next of the accompanying details. Here they are, at your
service:
"The day after leaving you in London, I traced Mr. Noel Vanstone to
this curious little seaside snuggery. One of his father's innumerable
bargains was a house at Aldborough--a rising watering-place, or Mr.
Michael Vanstone would not have invested a farthing in it. In this house
the despicable little miser, who lived rent free in London, now lives,
rent free again, on the coast of Suffolk. He is settled in his present
abode for the summer and autumn; and you and Mrs. Wragge have only to
join me here, to be established five doors away from him in this elegant
villa. I have got the whole house for three guineas a week, with
the option of remaining through the autumn at the same price. In a
fashionable watering-place, such a residence would have been cheap at
double the money.
"Our new name has been chosen with a wary eye to your suggestions. My
books--I hope you have not forgotten my Books?--contain, under the
heading of _Skins To Jump Into,_ a list of individuals retired from this
mortal scene, with whose names, families, and circumstances I am well
acquainted.
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