Why were not parcel and letter sent?
Merely through the sheer indolence that was characteristic of Adrian.

Then came the news of Castleton's death.

From that moment the poison of temptation must have begun to work.

For years, in his easy way, he struggled against it, until, perhaps, desperate for Doria, he succumbed.

What script, type-written or hand-written, he sent to Wittekind, the publisher of "The Diamond Gate," I did not learn till later.