Once he wrote to Sir Wycherly, but he suppressed the letter, as likely to give more pain than pleasure.
That letter I now have, and in his own hand-writing.

I have also his commission, and all the other proofs of identity that such a person would be apt to possess.

They are as complete as any court in Christendom would be likely to require, for he never felt a necessity for changing his name.

He has been dead but two years, and previously to dying he saw that every document necessary to establish my claim, should a moment for enforcing it ever arrive, was put in such a legal form as to admit of no cavilling.

He outlived my own father, but none of us thought there was any motive for presenting ourselves, as all believed that the sons of Baron Wychecombe were legitimate.