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The
open
envelope
was
addressed
(
evidently
in
a
feigned
hand
-
writing
)
to
’
Mrs
.
Ferrari
.
’
The
post
-
mark
was
’
Venice
.
’
The
contents
of
the
envelope
were
a
sheet
of
foreign
note
-
paper
,
and
a
folded
enclosure
On
the
note
-
paper
,
one
line
only
was
written
.
It
was
again
in
a
feigned
handwriting
,
and
it
contained
these
words
:
’
To
console
you
for
the
loss
of
your
husband
’
Agnes
opened
the
enclosure
next
.
It
was
a
Bank
of
England
note
for
a
thousand
pounds
.
The
next
day
,
the
friend
and
legal
adviser
of
Agnes
Lockwood
,
Mr
.
Troy
,
called
on
her
by
appointment
in
the
evening
.
Mrs
.
Ferrari
—
still
persisting
in
the
conviction
of
her
husband
’
s
death
—
had
sufficiently
recovered
to
be
present
at
the
consultation
.
Assisted
by
Agnes
,
she
told
the
lawyer
the
little
that
was
known
relating
to
Ferrari
’
s
disappearance
,
and
then
produced
the
correspondence
connected
with
that
event
.
Mr
.
Troy
read
(
first
)
the
three
letters
addressed
by
Ferrari
to
his
wife
;
(
secondly
)
the
letter
written
by
Ferrari
’
s
courier
-
friend
,
describing
his
visit
to
the
palace
and
his
interview
with
Lady
Montbarry
;
and
(
thirdly
)
the
one
line
of
anonymous
writing
which
had
accompanied
the
extraordinary
gift
of
a
thousand
pounds
to
Ferrari
’
s
wife
.
Well
known
,
at
a
later
period
,
as
the
lawyer
who
acted
for
Lady
Lydiard
,
in
the
case
of
theft
,
generally
described
as
the
case
of
’
My
Lady
’
s
Money
,
’
Mr
.
Troy
was
not
only
a
man
of
learning
and
experience
in
his
profession
—
he
was
also
a
man
who
had
seen
something
of
society
at
home
and
abroad
.
He
possessed
a
keen
eye
for
character
,
a
quaint
humour
,
and
a
kindly
nature
which
had
not
been
deteriorated
even
by
a
lawyer
’
s
professional
experience
of
mankind
.
With
all
these
personal
advantages
,
it
is
a
question
,
nevertheless
,
whether
he
was
the
fittest
adviser
whom
Agnes
could
have
chosen
under
the
circumstances
.
Little
Mrs
.
Ferrari
,
with
many
domestic
merits
,
was
an
essentially
commonplace
woman
.
Mr
.
Troy
was
the
last
person
living
who
was
likely
to
attract
her
sympathies
—
he
was
the
exact
opposite
of
a
commonplace
man
.
’
She
looks
very
ill
,
poor
thing
!
’
In
these
words
the
lawyer
opened
the
business
of
the
evening
,
referring
to
Mrs
.
Ferrari
as
unceremoniously
as
if
she
had
been
out
of
the
room
.
’
She
has
suffered
a
terrible
shock
,
’
Agnes
answered
.
