"Dear wife," he said at last, "do you really believe that I could send a letter addressed 'von Vestentrop, Denmark'?
This address is no doubt enough for the dear God, but not for short-sighted human beings." But the wife did not give in.

She reminded her husband that he knew their countryman, the pastor of the French church in Copenhagen, and that he perhaps could help him onto the track of von Vestentrop; the latter must be the owner of an estate and such a gentleman could be found.

And the wife spoke so long and so impressively to her husband that he finally sat down that very evening and wrote two letters.

The one he addressed "To Mr.von Vestentrop in Denmark".

This one he enclosed in the second and addressed that to his acquaintance, the pastor of the French church in Copenhagen.