At eight o'clock this evening they are to be placed in the hands of your cousin, Mistress Jennings, together with the bill drawn on Backwell of Lombard Street, for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds.

Deliver my message immediately and secretly.

Let no one know that I have spoken to you on the subject.

After you have seen Du Boise, go to Mistress Jennings and give her word from the Abbe designating where and at what hour she is to receive the documents.

I suggest eight o'clock, that they may not be in her possession too long.
But wait a moment!" He went to a writing desk standing near the river window, beckoned to me, and continued excitedly, "Sit here and write at my dictation." I sat down before the desk, took a quill, and awaited the king's pleasure.