Mr. Mountjoy has read my story, and thinks that I ought
without delay to send a copy of it to you. I therefore send you one, in
which I have left out all the names, and put in A, B, and C instead, by
his directions. He says that you will have no difficulty in filling up
the names.
"I remain, my dear Lady,
"Your ladyship's most obedient and humble servant,
"FANNY MERE."
This letter, with the document, was dispatched to Brussels that night.
And this is the trouble which Iris brought upon herself by answering
Fanny's advertisement.
CHAPTER LX
ON THE EVE OF A CHANGE
IRIS returned to Louvain by way of Paris. She had to settle up with the
doctor.
He obeyed her summons and called upon her at the hotel.
"Well, my lady," he began in his gross voice, rubbing his hands and
laughing, "it has come off, after all; hasn't it?"
"I do not desire, Dr. Vimpany, to discuss anything with you. We will
proceed to settle what business we have together."
"To think that your ladyship should actually fall in!" he replied. "Now
I confess that this was to me the really difficult part of the job. It
is quite easy to pretend that a man is dead, but not so easy to touch
his money.
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