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Mr. Gardiner left Longbourn on Sunday; on Tuesday, his wife

received a letter from him: it told them, that on his arrival he

had immediately found out his brother, and persuaded him to come

to Gracechurch Street. That Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and

Clapham, before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfactory

information; and that he was now determined to inquire at all the

principal hotels in town, as Mr. Bennet thought it possible they

might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London,

before they procured lodgings. Mr. Gardiner himself did not

expect any success from this measure; but as his brother was

eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it. He added,

that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave

London, and promised to write again very soon. There was also a

postscript to this effect:--