The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-01

AOWlAAS bSiiilo' First, to be loyal to the confidence I have placed in you and to keep strict I secret about all have revealed you. Second, to become a faithful guard ian of my poor child until regain my liberty and to advance the money necessary for her voyage and that of my confident who is to accompany her from Toledo to you, and furthermore to pay the costs of the college so that we may be able to retire my trunk from where it now is. You may easily imagine that cannot dispose of a sin gle penny here in the prison and all my friends are either detained like myself or emigrated, God knows where, and of all my family the only one that re- mains Is my poor daughter Therefore repeat once more you must advance the money for the voyage and that which is necessary to retire the trunk, which is indispensable, because in the secret partition therein all the docu- ments are hidden, that will be needed in rescuing the money for without those the discovery would be very diff ficult, if not impossible, and you were forced to make considerable diggings in different places, an imprudence which might easily attract the attention of the people and compromise the success of the whole affair, something that I ! cannot permit on any account what ever. Therefore the topographic plan, the metric ribbon and the sheet with l the annotations, which lay hidden In the secret partition of the trunk are necessary, for with these there will be no difficulty at all in your attempt of re-entering into possession of my box. And over and above you'll be compen- sated for all that you advance.
 To confirm the veracity of what I have here told you I have solicited of the governor of this prison certificate containing an extract of the law suit and the reasons that provoked the sen- tence, so that you may become sure of my having told you the truth and of my not having come by the money in any dishonest way.
 This certificate I'll send you as soon as I get it, probably tomorrow and at the same time I'll send you some more particulars, so as to explain some points that you perhaps have not been able to comprehend as yet.
 | This time can only send you this in- closed scrap of newspaper, that has spoken of the detention and the law suit In my next I'll give the ad- dress of my confident to whom your answer is to be sent, for I am not to receive anything at all directly.
 Hoping the importance of the matter will be my best excuse for troubling you with it, I remain, dear sir,
 Yours very truly,
 J. BASANTO.
 The second letter is as follows:
 Barcelona, Dear Sir:
 As promised you in my last, here now include the certificate the govern or of this castle has given me.
 When left your country and arrived at Toledo and went to the boarding school where my daughter lay sick, my first care was to hand my trunk over to her. The trunk namely wherein the documents are hidden, convinced that I never could have chosen a surer place to put it in, and in fact, when the police got wind of my arrival, and ar rested me in the very moment sallied out from the college where I had been to see my daughter. I was transported without any further Investigations be- ing made, to this castle where the court martial then condemned me to 15 years of imprisor nent, which punishment is to be accomplished at the Island of Cuba.
 Thus the trunk got saved, but the di- rectress of the boarding school on hear ing how long an Imprisonment I had been sentenced to laid hold of all the luggage of my daughter including my trunk, as a security for the of 2657 francs, which my daughter owes the school and when I wrote and implored her to send my daughter here and give her my trunk, which I pretended tc need on account of the linen it con i, tains, at the same time assuring hel , that should not be long in paying oul debt, she answered that the trunk ha6 been seized along with the other lug , gage and could not be handed over tc me until after I had paved the sum.
 The statutes of the establishment sht added did not permit her to act other. !, wise and if I did not pay the bill sht !, included she was forced to keep the trunk. This bill of hers here include that you may be able to take notice 0. it yourself and see that the only way to get safely out of this, is to pay tht , sum.
 All the necessary documents are hid den in the secret partition of that trunl { and as I told you in my last I canno
 permit you to make any attempts g.
 rescuing my fortune without these oi , account of the difficulties and danger
 such kind of proceedings might in ! volve concerning the future welfare 0 ? my daughter On the contrary provid f ed with the topographic plan th l metric tape measure and the explica - tive sheet you are sure not to mee 7 with one sole difficulty and then m, v daughter, too, can-according to m, s wish-be present at the moment.
 l Furthermore should like her to re n main with you, you being her tutor o . in other words your becoming a sec
 ond father to her, taking watchfu a care of her part of the money, invest f ing it in such way as to secure he l a sufficient yearly income, until I hay
 accomplished my punishment or re a gained my freedom in case that the re I public were to be proclaimed which :. hope will not last too long before oc r. curing.