The project has been abandoned now and I am free to go back home.
Thus you see that when you granted me the privilege of those seven letters you played into my hands.

So, said I, she longs for mystery and romance.

Then, by the Lord Harry, she shall have them! And it was the tramp of Captain Fraser-Freer's boots above my head that showed me the way.

A fine, stalwart, cordial fellow--the captain--who has been very kind to me since I presented my letter of introduction from his cousin, Archibald Enwright.

Poor Archie! A meek, correct little soul, who would be horrified beyond expression if he knew that of him I had made a spy and a frequenter of Limehouse! The dim beginnings of the plot were in my mind when I wrote that first letter, suggesting that all was not regular in the matter of Archie's note of introduction.