"Well, sir, I thought no more of the matter, and never would have done had it not been for my wife. Only a few weeks ago she was cleaning out Sir Charles's study--it had never been touched since his death--and she found the ashes of a burned letter in the back of the grate.
»-Verá, señor; yo no hubiera vuelto a pensar en ello de no ser por mi mujer que, hace tan sólo unas semanas, cuando estaba limpiando el estudio de Sir Charles (no se había tocado desde su muerte), encontró las cenizas de una carta en el hogar de la chimenea.