The next morning, Messrs. Green and Richardson received a letter marked “private,” in which the writer begged to be furnished without delay with full particulars of the appearance of the missing Lady Redmond, and her age and the age of the child; and the letter was signed, “Fergus Duncan, the Manse, Rowan-Glen.”
CHAPTER XLI.
UNDER THE ROWANS.
My wife, my life. O we will walk this world,
Yoked in all exercise of noble end,
And so thro’ those dark gates across the wild
That no man knows. Indeed I love thee: come,
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Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.
Tennyson’s Princess.
Fergus was not kept long in suspense; his letter was answered by return of post. Messrs. Green and Richardson had been evidently struck with the concise, businesslike note they had received, and they took great pains in furnishing him with full particulars, and begged that, if he had any special intelligence to impart, he would write direct to their client, Sir Hugh Redmond, Redmond Hall, Singleton.