When she had done all this--it took a good deal of time--she
bought a manuscript book and copied it all out. This enabled her to
remember two or three facts which had escaped her at the beginning.
Then she made another copy this time without names of people or place.
The second copy she forwarded as a registered letter to Mrs. Vimpany,
with a letter of which this was the conclusion: "Considering,
therefore, that on Wednesday morning I left Lord Harry in perfect
health; considering that on the Thursday morning I saw the man who had
been ill so long actually die--how, I have told you in the packet
enclosed; considering that the nurse was called in purposely to attend
a patient who was stated to have long been ill--there can be no doubt
whatever that the body in the cemetery is that of the unfortunate Dane,
Oxbye; and that, somewhere or other, Lord Harry is alive and well.
"What have they done it for? First of all, I suppose, to get money. If
it were not for the purpose of getting money the doctor would have had
nothing to do with the conspiracy, which was his own invention. That is
very certain. Your idea was they would try to get money out of the
Insurance Offices. I suppose that is their design.
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