"In any case, we request you will at once favor us with the most exact
personal description that can be written of both the parties. We may
require your assistance, in this important particular, at five minutes'
notice. Favor us, therefore, with the description by return of post.
In the meantime, we will endeavor to ascertain on our side whether any
information is to be privately obtained at Mr. Loscombe's office. The
lawyer himself is probably altogether beyond our reach. But if any one
of his clerks can be advantageously treated with on such terms as may
not overtax your pecuniary resources, accept my assurance that the
opportunity shall be made the most of by, dear madam, your faithful
servant,
"ALFRED DE BLERIOT."
VII.
_From Mr. Pendril to Norah Vanstone._
"Serle Street, October 27th. 1847.
"MY DEAR MISS VANSTONE--A lady named Lecount (formerly attached to Mr.
Noel Vanstone's service in the capacity of housekeeper) has called at my
office this morning, and has asked me to furnish her with your address.
I have begged her to excuse my immediate compliance with her request,
and to favor me with a call to-morrow morning, when I shall be prepared
to meet her with a definite answer.
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