come back here with a fame like that of Gérard the lion- killer. Be sure of one thing, if you were just as clean handed in this business as I know you are not, there is no time now for a vindication. You _must_ get out of the way, and wait. The clubs, the press, the swells at the Horse Guards, and the snobs at the War-office, are all against you, and there’s no squaring your book against such long odds. I am well aware that no one gets either into or out of a scrape more easily than yourself; but don’t treat this as a light one: don’t fancy, above all, that I am giving you the darkest side of it, for, with all our frankness and free speech together, I couldn’t tell you the language people hold here about it There’s not a man you ever bullied at mess, or beat at billiards, that is not paying off his scores to you now! And though you may take all this easily, don’t undervalue its importance. “I haven’t got--and I don’t suppose you care much now to get--any information about Loyd, beyond his being appointed something, Attorney-General’s ‘devil,’ I believe, at Calcutta. I’d not have heard even so much, but he was trying to get a loan, to make out his outfit, from Joel, and old Isaac told me who he was, and what he wanted. Joel thinks, from the state of the fellow’s health, that no one will like to advance the cash, and if so, he’ll be obliged to relinquish the place. You have not told me whether you wish this, or the opposite. “I wish I could book up to you at such a moment as this, but I haven’t got it I send you all that I can scrape together, seventy odd; it is a post bill, and easily cashed anywhere. In case I hear of anything that may be imminently needed for your guidance, I’ll telegraph to you the morrow after your receipt of this, addressing the message to the name Grainger, to prevent accidents. You must try and keep your friends from seeing the London papers so long as you stay with them. I suppose, when you leave, you’ll not fret about the reputation that follows you. For the last time, let me warn you to get away to some place of safety, for if they can push matters to an arrest, things may take an ugly turn.