Don't forget 'Jenks' and 'Lord Ventnor'; those are the lines of _inquiry_.
"Yours, "MATILDA.
"PS .-- Perhaps I am misjudging them.

Mrs.Anstruther has just sent me an invitation to an 'At Home' next Thursday .-- M.
"PPS .-- Dear me, this letter will never get away, I have just destroyed another envelope to tell you that the vicar came in to tea.

From what he told me about Lord Ventnor, I imagine that Mrs.
Anstruther said no more than he deserved .-- M." NOTE .-- Colonel Anstruther's agents discovered, after long and costly inquiry, that a Shields man named James Spence, a marine engineer, having worked for a time as a miner in California, shipped as third engineer on a vessel bound for Shanghai.

There be quitted her.

He passed some time ashore in dissipation, took another job on a Chinese river steamer, and was last heard of some eighteen months before the _Sirdar_ was wrecked.