I have done much to make my mother pity me--nothing to make my mother blush for me.' Those are my daughter's own words.
"After what has passed between the officer and me, I think--stranger as he is--that he should be made acquainted with what Miss Verinder has said, as well as you.

Read my letter to him, and then place in his hands the cheque which I enclose.

In resigning all further claim on his services, I have only to say that I am convinced of his honesty and his intelligence; but I am more firmly persuaded than ever, that the circumstances, in this case, have fatally misled him." There the letter ended.

Before presenting the cheque, I asked Sergeant Cuff if he had any remark to make.
"It's no part of my duty, Mr.Betteredge," he answered, "to make remarks on a case, when I have done with it." I tossed the cheque across the table to him.

"Do you believe in THAT part of her ladyship's letter ?" I said, indignantly.
The Sergeant looked at the cheque, and lifted up his dismal eyebrows in acknowledgment of her ladyship's liberality.
"This is such a generous estimate of the value of my time," he said, "that I feel bound to make some return for it.