cant. It was necessary that
there should be four men in the service, all good and true; and men
require to be well paid for such goodness and truth. There was the
man, himself an ex-policeman, who gave the instructions to the first
cabman, as he was starting. The cabman would not undertake the job at
all unless he were so instructed on the spot, asserting that in this
way he would be able to prove that the orders he obeyed came from
the lady's husband. And there was the crafty pseudo-waiter, with the
napkin and no hat, who had carried the boy to the cab in which his
father was sitting. And there were the two cabmen. Bozzle planned
it all, and with some difficulty arranged the preliminaries. How
successful was the scheme, we have seen; and Bozzle, for a month, was
able to assume a superiority over his wife, which that honest woman
found to be very disagreeable. "There ain't no fraudulent abduction
in it at all," Bozzle exclaimed, "because a wife ain't got no rights
again her husband,--not in such a matter as that." Mrs. Bozzle
implied that if her husband were to take her child away from her
without her leave, she'd let him know something about it. But as
the husband had in his possession the note for a hundred pounds,
realized, Mrs. Bozzle had not much to say in support of her view of
the case.

On the morning after the occurrence, while Sir Marmaduke was waiting
with his solicitor upon a magistrate to find whether anything could
be done, the following letter was brought to Mrs. Trevelyan at
Gregg's Hotel:--

Our child is safe with me, and will remain so. If you care
to obtain legal advice you will find that I as his father
have a right to keep him under my protection. I shall
do so; but will allow you to see him as soon as I shall
have received a full guarantee that you have no idea of
withdrawing him from my charge.

A home for yourself with me is still open to you,--on
condition that you will give me the promise that I have
demanded from you; and as long as I shall not hear that
you again see or communicate with the person to whose
acquaintance I object. While you remain away from me I
will cause you to be paid L50 a month, as I do not wish
that you should be a burden on others. But this payment
will depend also on your not seeing or holding any
communication with the person to whom I have alluded.

Your affectionate and offended husband,

LOUIS TREVELYAN.