"MY DEAR----. I entreat you, by our long unbroken friendship, to keep the enclosed letter by you, for a fortnight; and then, with your own hand, and alone, deliver it to the individual to whom it is addressed. Burn _this_ note--I mean the one which I am at this instant writing to you--the instant you shall have read it; and take care that no eye sees the enclosed but _hers_--or all my efforts to secure a _little_ provision for her will be frustrated. In the corner of the top drawer of my cabinet will be found, folded up, a document referred to in the enclosed letter--in fact, _my will_--and which I wish _you_, as an old friend, to take the very earliest opportunity of discovering, _accidentally_. You will find the _date_ all correct, and _safe_. But whether my fiendish persecutors will allow it to have any effect, situated as are my affairs, is more than doubtful. Still I will throw away no chance in favor of the being who has occupied so much of my last thoughts. Call here to-morrow--at any hour you please--and say that you have called to see me, _according to my appointment_, and produce and show the enclosed ordinary invitation, to any one who may inquire, as being the only communication which you have received from me since my return from Brighton. Bear all this in mind, by the value you set upon my friendship: _whatever you may then see or hear, be firm and prudent_.--O. G." "_Wednesday_." In this letter he enclosed the long letter and the note already mentioned; and having sealed and directed the whole, with elaborate distinctness, he threw his cloak round him, and went with his packet to the post-office, and with his own hand, after an instant's hesitation, dropped it into the box, and returned to his chambers. Then he took another sheet of paper, and wrote thus: "DEAR VIPER,--I doubt whether, after all, there will be a Dissolution; but, at any rate, I will perform my promise, and be ready with what you wish for Sunday week.--Yours ever, "O. G. "P. S.--I shall call upon you on Saturday, without fail." This he folded up and directed, and proceeded to commence the following:-- "_Thavies' Inn, Wednesday._ "DEAR SIR,--I have finally determined to make every sacrifice in order to extricate myself, with honor, from my present embarrassments. You will, therefore, as soon as you get this, please to sell out all my"----