Chapter

 1 I   | invitation secret.”~Such was the letter which James Starr received
 2 I   |       the 3rd December, 18—, the letter bearing the Aberfoyle postmark,
 3 I   |        him to doubt whether this letter might not be a hoax. For
 4 I   |      separation that he got this letter from Simon Ford, requesting
 5 I   |          life. Starr re-read his letter. He pondered over it in
 6 I   |     servant brought him a second letter. This letter was enclosed
 7 I   |        him a second letter. This letter was enclosed in a coarse
 8 I   |    trouble himself, Simon Ford’s letter being now without object.”~
 9 II  |          when he got this second letter contradicting the first.~“
10 II  |        the author of this second letter knew the overman’s secret,
11 II  |       more credence to the first letter than to the second; that
12 II  |       hope it was so.~The second letter had for an instant checked
13 II  |       but now he thought of that letter no longer. Besides, the
14 II  |        rendezvous. The anonymous letter was therefore worth nothing.~
15 II  |      Simon Ford send me a second letter to contradict the first?”
16 II  |        speaking of the anonymous letter. Then, continuing, “And
17 IV  |        you.”~“Go on, sir.”~“Your letter told me of a communication
18 IV  |        handing him the anonymous letter.~Ford took the letter and
19 IV  |  anonymous letter.~Ford took the letter and read it attentively.
20 IV  |     replied Harry.~“And had this letter the Aberfoyle postmark?”
21 IV  |         t think any more of that letter just now.”~On the old woman’
22 IV  |       the cottage. The anonymous letter had not contributed to reassure
23 VI  |            I know you have! Your letter could mean nothing else.”~“
24 VI  |          now be certain, of that letter which was intended to hinder
25 IX  |        James Starr. Simon Ford’s letter had requested secrecy, and
26 IX  | communicated to his colleagues a letter which James Starr had sent
27 IX  |         the Royal Institution by letter, what he knew relative to
28 XI  |        begin with, the anonymous letter, contradictory to that of
29 XVI |          same which wrote me the letter contradicting yours, Simon.
30 XVII|        beg me to come. Hence the letter contradicting yours; hence,
31 XVII|          from that time when the letter was written to Mr. Starr,