But it could be made to have a better appearance if told by himself, than if published from other quarters.

The old housekeeper at Manchester Square must know something about it, and would, of course, tell what she knew, and the loss of the money and the watch must in all probability be made known.

Before he had reached his own door he had quite made up his mind that he himself would tell the story after his own fashion.
And he told it, before he went to bed that night.

He washed the blood from his face and head, and cut away a part of the clotted hair, and then wrote a letter to old Mr.Wharton at Wharton Hall.

And between three and four o'clock in the morning he went out and posted his letter in the nearest pillar, so that it might go down by the day mail and certainly be preceded by no other written tidings.