Knowing this, I had been ready to almost take an oath as to the true identity of Shadow.
Yet here comes a letter that completely upsets all my faith in my powers of penetration.
If the writing of Nellie Millbank and of Shadow was the same, then Mat evidently was not Shadow. And if Mat was not Shadow, who was?
Nellie Millbank?
It was barely possible.
That slip of a girl do what I knew Shadow was capable of doing, as well as what he had done?
It was not to be credited.
And yet—the similarity of the handwriting. How was that to be accounted for?
I thought of Mrs. Morris.
I intended to go and show her one of the Shadow letters, and inquire if she knew the writing.