It is sacred between man and man.
But the letter possessed other points of interest--of almost universal interest--to which no such scruples need apply; for it cleared up certain features of the foregoing narrative which had long been mysteries to all the world; and it gave me what I had tried in vain to fathom all these years, some explanation, or rather history, of the young Lancastrian's complicity with Joaquin Santos in the foul enterprise of the Lady Jermyn.

And these passages I shall reproduce word for word; partly because of their intrinsic interest; partly for such new light as they day throw on this or that phase of the foregoing narrative; and, lastly, out of fairness to (I hope) the most gallant and most generous youth who ever slipped upon the lower slopes of Avemus.
Wrote Rattray: "You wondered how I could have thrown in my lot with such a man.

You may wonder still, for I never yet told living soul.

I pretended I had joined him of my own free will.

That was not quite the case.