Either way, it is, in my
opinion, impossible to found any valid legal declaration on a knowledge
of the document so fragmentary and so incomplete as the knowledge which
you possess. If other lawyers differ from me on this point, by all
means consult them. I have devoted money enough and time enough to the
unfortunate attempt to assert your interests; and my connection with the
matter must, from this moment, be considered at an end.
"Your obedient servant,
"JOHN LOSCOMBE."
IX.
_From Mrs. Ruddock (Lodging-house Keeper) to Mr. Loscombe._
"Park Terrace, St. John's Wood, June 2d.
"SIR--Having, by Mrs. Noel Vanstone's directions, taken letters for her
to the post, addressed to you--and knowing no one else to apply to--I
beg to inquire whether you are acquainted with any of her friends; for
I think it right that they should be stirred up to take some steps about
her.
"Mrs. Vanstone first came to me in November last, when she and her maid
occupied my apartments. On that occasion, and again on this, she has
given me no cause to complain of her. She has behaved like a lady, and
paid me my due. I am writing, as a mother of a family, under a sense of
responsibility--I am not writing with an interested motive.
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