But suppose you desire to go out of town for the
air, this sultry weather, and insist upon it? You
may plead your health for so doing. He dare not
>>> resist such a plea. Your brother's foolish scheme,
I am told, is certainly given up; so you need not
be afraid on that account.

If you do not fly the house upon reading of this,
or some way or other get out of it, I shall judge of
his power over you, by the little you will have over
either him or yourself.

>>> One of my informers has made such slight inquiries
concerning Mrs. Fretchville. Did he ever name
to you the street or square she lived in?--I don't
>>> remember that you, in any of your's, mentioned the
place of her abode to me. Strange, very strange,
this, I think! No such person or house can be
found, near any of the new streets or squares, where
the lights I had from your letters led me to imagine
>>> her house might be.--Ask him what street the
house is in, if he has not told you; and let me
>>> know. If he make a difficulty of that circumstance,
it will amount to a detection.--And yet, I think,
you will have enough without this.

I shall send this long letter by Collins, who
changes his day to oblige me; and that he may try
(now I know where you are) to get it into your
own hands. If he cannot, he will leave it at
Wilson's. As none of our letters by that convey-
ance have miscarried when you have been in more
apparently disagreeable situations than you are in at
present. I hope that this will go safe, if Collins
should be obliged to leave it there.

>>> I wrote a short letter to you in my first agitations.
It contained not above twenty lines, all full of fright,
alarm, and execration. But being afraid that my
vehemence would too much affect you, I thought it
better to wait a little, as well for the reasons already
hinted at, as to be able to give you as many par-
ticulars as I could, and my thoughts upon all. And
as they have offered, or may offer, you will be
sufficiently armed to resist all his machinations, be
what they will.

>>> One word more. Command me up, if I can be
of the least service or pleasure to you. I value
not fame; I value not censure; nor even life itself,
I verily think, as I do your honour, and your