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The letter despatched by Mr. Lane to his lieutenant was directed to the Brinkstone Arms, Brinkstone, a small Sussex village about five miles from the sea, which Sellars had made the starting-place of his investigations.
He had chosen the place because he had learned that Brinkstone Park, situated a mile and a half from the little village, was the ancestral home of the Brookes family, of which Sir George was now the head. Acting on the assumption that the baronet stood in the relation of brother-in-law to Mrs. Morrice, he thought it probable that not only would he pick up first-hand information about the man, but might glean some equally valuable data with regard to the woman whose maiden name had been the somewhat uncommon one of Larchester.