"‘dearest do not be frightened. all will come well. there is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. wait in patience.—neville.’ written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. hum! posted to-day in gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. ha! and the flap has been gummed, if i am not very much in error, by a person who had been chewing tobacco. and you have no doubt that it is your husband’s hand, madam?"