I enclose ten pounds in this, not to show you that I am myself fully satisfied, but to let you see that the bare chance of your being an Ingleton makes me feel anxious you should not think we, as a family, do not stand by one another.

I do not expect to be able to repeat it, as my allowance is limited, and my guardians are not likely to consent to hand over any money for you till you can prove your claim.

Write and give me more particulars, and I promise you I shall not shirk my duty to you or the name I bear." At any other time Roger would have shown this epistle, the writing of which cost him many anxious hours, to Armstrong.

Now, however, that help was denied him.

The tutor, he knew, would have screwed his eye- glass into his eye and ruthlessly pulled the document to pieces.