XLVI
An instant, and Saxham's own face looks calmly at the dazed Chaplain, and the curt, brusque voice demands:
"What is this incontrovertible testimony?"
"A letter," says Julius breathlessly, "from a person who saw the entry of the marriage at the Registrar's office where it took place."
"Is anyone else in possession of this information?"
"With the exception of the Registrar and the witnesses of the marriage, up to the middle of last September, when the letter was written, nothing had leaked out. I received the communication by the last mail from England that was delivered at the Hospital before I underwent the operation."
"That was the last mail that got through. Who was your correspondent?"
"One of the senior officiating priests of St. Margaret's, Wendish Street, the London church where I did duty as junior curate."
"Have you kept the letter?"
"It is in my desk at my hotel, with some other correspondence of Father Tatham's. You may see it if you wish."