Then they come over here and endeavour to enforce their demand for money by a threat.' 'That envelope is so unfortunate,' said the lawyer.
'Most unfortunate.' 'Perhaps we shall get some one before the day comes who will tell the jury that any marriage up at Ahalala must have been a farce.' All this was unsatisfactory, and became so more and more as the weeks went by.

The confidential clerk whom the Boltons had sent out when the first threat reached them early in November,--the threat conveyed in that letter from the woman which Caldigate had shown to Robert Bolton,--returned about the end of March.

The two brothers, Robert and William, decided upon sending him to Mr.Seely, so that any information obtained might be at Caldigate's command, to be used, if of any use, in his defence.

But there was in truth very little of it.

The clerk had been up to Nobble and Ahalala, and had found no one there who knew enough of the matter to give evidence about it.