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High thinking , therefore , decided him at last to answer thus : `` February 19th , 1905 . `` SIR , -- I have received your note . I think it may be fair , before taking further steps in this matter , to ask you for a personal explanation of the circumstances to which I alluded . I therefore propose with your permission to call on you at your private residence at five o'clock to-morrow afternoon . `` Yours faithfully , `` CHARLES VENTNOR . `` SYLVANUS HEYTHORP , Esq. '' Having sent this missive , and arranged in his mind the damning , if circumstantial , evidence he had accumulated , he awaited the hour with confidence , for his nature was not lacking in the cock-surety of a Briton . All the same , he dressed himself particularly well that morning , putting on a blue and white striped waistcoat which , with a cream-coloured tie , set off his fulvous whiskers and full blue eyes ; and he lunched , if anything , more fully than his wont , eating a stronger cheese and taking a glass of special Club ale .