Chapter 7

These he opened, glanced at, and handed to Lamancha. "Read 'em out, Charles," he said. "It's the answers at last." Lamancha read slowly the first document, of which this is the text: "Glenraden Castle, "Strathlarrig, "_Aug._ -- 19--. "Sir, "I have received your insolent letter. I do not know what kind of rascal you may be, except that you have the morals of a bandit and the assurance of a halfpenny journalist. But since you seem in your perverted way to be a sportsman, I am not the …