the tax-payer of a burden. Barrymore blessed us & thanked us from
his heart, and said it would have killed his wife had the man been
taken again. Sir Henry confessed to me that he felt as if he were
aiding & abetting a felony, but he did not feel we could give the man
up after what we had heard. Barrymore thanked us again, and was about
to leave. He hesitated and came back.
There was something he should perhaps have told us before, he said, but
he had found it long after the inquest.  He had not breathed a word
about it to anyone.  He knew that Sir Charles had been at the gate to
meet a woman, whose initials were "L.L.".  Sir Charles usually received
a great many letters, for he was a public man and well-known for his
kind heart, so that everyone who was in trouble was glad to turn to him.
But the morning he died there was only one letter, from Coombe Tracey,
