d Mr. Fairlie that Anne Catherick (of whom he might
hear full particulars from Miss Halcombe when she reached Limmeridge)
had been traced and recovered in the neighbourhood of Blackwater Park,
and had been for the second time placed under the charge of the medical
man from whose custody she had once escaped.

This was the first part of the postscript. The second part warned Mr.
Fairlie that Anne Catherick's mental malady had been aggravated by her
long freedom from control, and that the insane hatred and distrust of
Sir Percival Glyde, which had been one of her most marked delusions in
former times, still existed under a newly-acquired form. The
unfortunate woman's last idea in connection with Sir Percival was the
idea of annoying and distressing him, and of elevating herself, as she
supposed, in the estimation of the patients and nurses, by assuming the
character of his deceased wife, the scheme of this personation having
evidently occurred to her after a stolen interview which she had
succeeded in obtaining with Lady Glyde, and at which she had observed
the extraordinary accidental likeness between the deceased lady and
herself. It was to the last degree improbable that she would succeed a
second time in escaping from the Asylum, but it was just possible she
might find some means of annoying the late Lady Glyde's relatives with
letters, and in that case Mr. Fairlie was warned beforehand how to
receive them.

The postscript, expressed in these terms, was shown to Miss Halcombe
when she arrived at Limmeridge. There were also placed in her
possession the clothes Lady Glyde had worn, and the other effects she
had brought with her to her aunt's house. They had been carefully
collected and sent to Cumberland by Madame Fosco.

Such was the posture of affairs when Miss Halcombe reached Limmeridge
in the early part of September.

Shortly afterwards she was confined to her room by a relapse, her
weakened physical energies giving way under the severe mental
affliction from which she was now suffering. On getting stronger
again, in a month's time, her suspicion of the circumstances described
as attending her sister's death still remained unshaken. She had heard
nothing in the interim of Sir Percival Glyde, but letters had reached
her from Madame Fosco, making the most affectionate inquiries on the
part of her husband and herself. Instead of answering these letters,
Miss Halcombe caused the house in St. John's Wood, and