_I_
have had no experience on that point--_you_ must have had plenty
of experience in your father's time. Give me the benefit of
your information, and we will add the date before you leave the
writing-table."
Noel Vanstone's experience was, as Captain Wragge had anticipated,
perfectly competent to settle the question of time. The railway
resources of the Continent (in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-seven) were but scanty; and a letter sent at that period from
England to Zurich, and from Zurich back again to England, occupied ten
days in making the double journey by post.
"Date the letter in French five days on from to-morrow," said the
captain, when he had got his information. "Very good. The next thing is
to let me have the doctor's note as soon as you can. I may be obliged
to practice some hours before I can copy your translation in an
exact imitation of the doctor's handwriting. Have you got any foreign
note-paper? Let me have a few sheets, and send, at the same time, an
envelope addressed to one of those lady-friends of yours at Zurich,
accompanied by the necessary request to post the inclosure. This is all
I need trouble you to do, Mr.
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