No one called at the _Times_ for the answers to the advertisement, yet
Stone received a reply to his letter of application. The ad was inserted
by Carroll under the fictitious name of Jonathan Gills and answered by
Stone at his wife’s suggestion. She acquainted her lover, Carroll, with
this fact, and he wrote Stone, arranging the meeting at which he
disappeared.
When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
Denham.