"How then do you happen to be aware of the particulars you have narrated so fluently? How have you gained the knowledge of the letters and the gifts?"
"Having only the good of my child at heart, and being better versed in the villainies----"
"Be careful of your words."
"If your son has no honourable intention towards my girl, the word is in its proper place. Being better versed in the ways of the world than she, a young and inexperienced child, can possibly be, I exercised my rightful authority, and searched her trunk, to discover what she was concealing from me. I found the tokens there. The letters are written on paper stamped with a crest, surrounded by Latin words which I do not understand."
Mr. Temple, in silence, handed Seth a sheet of notepaper.
"The crest and words," said Seth, putting on his spectacles to examine them, "are the same as these."
"Is that all you have to say?"
"All--with the exception that three nights ago I witnessed the meeting between your son and my child."
"How did you discover where he lives?"
"I followed him to this house, and learnt that it was yours."