[The Slowcoach by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Slowcoach CHAPTER 23 3/10
We have never discovered.
The giver wished to be anonymous." Mr.Amory looked surprised, and became a shade less fierce. "You took no steps to find out ?" he asked. "How could I? There was no clue to go upon." "I see, I see," said Mr.Amory.
"There has been a huge mistake.
Perhaps you will allow me to read you a letter which we received a day or so ago: "'DEAR CHILDREN, "'I have just come back, much sooner than I expected; but, finding no letter from you, I have made some inquiries as to what you have done with the caravan, and, to my amazement, cannot discover that it has ever reached you at all; and since, if it has not, this letter must be all Greek to you, I may now say that on the 23rd of June a caravan fully furnished for a journey should have arrived at your house with a letter saying it was from your friend X., as it amused me to call myself.
I have been to the man whom I employed to take it to you, but he is in hospital.
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