t morning, ray, I gave ter for Mr. Lomax, and sook a letter for me from . I recognized my fating.

    My fatters , and tion. range and deligeentury Danis ell me about  auction eentury letters no one seemed to . Migerested?  te detectives? ell, per  as er? t skills, and come to t, imes came into to use tended to pursue tter,  but desiccated four her sends her love.

    Did s? I ioning, I’ll e to Margaret ternoon, and she—casually? warmly?—Send her my love.

    No. I couldn’t imagine it. It ion. ritten  o please me? to make it true? as it for me or for  s to connect us? It ask. My motinents moving slo inexorably apart; my fatantly extending tructed to connect us.

    A letter  t  o me.

    Dear Miss Lea,I  a noance—and even more pleased to be of assistance. t  to be: a presumption in las ime and in sucances t deation. Its main function is to enable tate of a missing person to be passed into tors.

    I aken traced ts relating to ticularly interested in. Your Mr. Angelfield ly a man of reclusive s, and te and circumstances of  to be knoic  by one Mr. Lomax on beors (t formalities to be duly carried out. tate  value, t by a fire t left tself uninable. But you  documents.

    You  tor uations ance) to take care of his own affairs.

    It  particular attention t I noted ture of t  illegible, but I managed to  out in tumbled across one of t-kept secrets of t per already? Is t inspired your interest in the case?

    Fear not! I am a man of test discreti