Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-07-09
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CHAPTER tHI-continued,
Well the last received only a
fortnight afs. If you will wait a mo-
'neht VIII! go and get it, 1t was so
strange that ! haven't destroyed it,"
AND she went out. and ! heard by
the the frou-frou of her skirts that she
was ascending the stairs.
After five minutes of breathless anxi-
ETY. she rejoined me, and handing me
the letter to read. said:
1T is not in her handwriting-I won.
der why?"
The paper was of foreign make, with
blue lines ruled in squares Written
IN a hand that was evidently foreign.
Tor the mistakes in the orthography
we're many. was the following curious
communications:
Ny Dear Lydia:
Perhaps you may never get this letter
the last shall ever he able to send YOU
indeed ! run great risks in sending II.
All! you do not know the awful flisastnr
and the fortunes endure. But no one can
assist me- and am now looking forward
TO the time when it will all be over. Do
you recoilect our old peaceful DAYS in the
garden at Chichester? think of them
always. always. and compare that sweet
peace OF the past with my own terrible
sunerlngs Of today. An. how 1 wish
m.ght gee you once again: how that I
might feel your hand upon my brow and
near your words Of hope and encourage
ment! But happiness is now debarred
1rom me, and am only sinking to the
grave under this slow torture of body and
Of soul.
Thls will pass through many hands be-
FORE 1t reaches the post. If, however II
eyer Goes get dispatched and you receive
u, Will You do me one last favor-a favor
10 an unfortunate girl who is friendless
and helpless. and who will no longer trou
bic the world? 1t is this: Take this Lot
ter to London. and call upon Mr.. Martin
Woodrohe at SO Cork street. Piccadilly.
Show him my letter. and tell him from
me that through it all have kept nv
promise. and that the secret is still safe.
he Will anderstand-and also know why I
cannot write this with my own hand. II
NJ Is abroad, keep it until he returns
1t Is all l ask of you, Lydia. and I
Know that If this reaches you, YOU viii
not refuse me. You have been my only
It,end ana confidante. but l now bid you
xerewell. for the unknown beckons me.
and from the grave cannot write. Again
1ereWell. and for ever
Your loving and affectionate friend
ELAIA.
"A very strange letter, is it not!" re.
marked the girl at my side. II can't
make it out. You see there is no ad.
dress. but the postmark is Russian.
She is evidently in Russia"
I'm Finland" said, examining the
stamp and making out the post town to
Be Abo. But have you been to Lon.
don and executed this strange commits
sion!"
mo. We are going up next week. l
Intend to call upon this person named
Woodroffe" :.
made no remark. He was, knew,
abroad, but was glad at having OBJ
tanned two very important clues: first,
the address of the mysterious yachts.
man. Woodroffe, alias Hornby, and,
secondly, ascertaining that the young
girl sought was somewhere in the
vicinity of the town of Abo, the Fin
inish port on the Baltic.
Poor Elma. you see, speaks in her
Better Of some secret. Mr.. Gregg" my
companion said. She says she wishes
this Mr.. Woodroffe, whoever he is, to
know that she has kept her promise
and has not divulged 1t. This only
bears out what l have all along sus-
pected."
What are your suspicions?"
well. from her deep. thoughtful
manner, and from certain remarks she
at times made to me, I believe Elma
10 in possession of some great and ter.
rible secret-a secret which her uncle,
Baron Oberg, is DESTROYS of learning.
I know she holds him in deadly fear
she is in terror that she may inadver.
tently betray to him the truth"