No Name
No Name
“The place of Michael Vanstone’s residence on the Continent had been discovered. He was living at Zürich; and a letter had been despatched to him, at that place, on the day when the information was obtained. In the course of the coming week an answer might be expected, and the purport of it should be communicated forthwith to the ladies at Combe-Raven.
Short as it was, the interval of delay passed wearily. Ten days elapsed before the expected answer was received; and when it came at last, it pro...ved to be, strictly speaking, no answer at all. Mr Pendril had been merely referred to an agent in London who was in possession of Michael Vanstone’s instructions. Certain difficulties had been discovered in connection with those instructions, which had produced the necessity of once more writing to Zürich. And there ‘the negotiations’ rested again for the present.
A second paragraph in Mr Pendril’s letter contained another piece of intelligence entirely new. Mr Michael Vanstone’s son (and only child), Mr Noel Vanstone, had recently arrived in London, and was then staying in lodgings occupied by his cousin, Mr George Bartram.MoreLess
Short as it was, the interval of delay passed wearily. Ten days elapsed before the expected answer was received; and when it came at last, it pro...ved to be, strictly speaking, no answer at all. Mr Pendril had been merely referred to an agent in London who was in possession of Michael Vanstone’s instructions. Certain difficulties had been discovered in connection with those instructions, which had produced the necessity of once more writing to Zürich. And there ‘the negotiations’ rested again for the present.
A second paragraph in Mr Pendril’s letter contained another piece of intelligence entirely new. Mr Michael Vanstone’s son (and only child), Mr Noel Vanstone, had recently arrived in London, and was then staying in lodgings occupied by his cousin, Mr George Bartram.MoreLess
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