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them.
Thank heaven" I murmured.
"Oh, thank heaven"
HOW LILLIAN DISCLOSED NAME
THE LITTLE ENVELOPE
RORE

shoulder as I put down my fathers
letter in order TO wipe away the
thankful tears his words had given
me. The touch steadied. treasured
me. and / took up the letter again,
strengthened as much by her sym
pathy as / had been by the pledge
my father had given me that there
was nothing dishOnorable in the
mysterious work I'm which he had
been engaged so long.
There is but one thing you can
do for me. my daughter" the letter
went on, land that thing / must
lay on your conscience as a sacred
trust. No matter what happens to
me. the work I am carrying or here
must not stop. I may be able 10
eXtricate myself from the tolls that
now surround me. / have gotten
out Of many tight places before
but If cannot and 1 see that things
are hopeless, I will send you
cable with these words: Sell ccun-
try place Immediately
You will then go 10 the man
whose name and address are on the
sealed envelope / am enclosing with
this. and give the envelope to him
The message within is in a code
which but four men in the country
know. so that it is no discourtesy
TO you 10 seal it, Remember, this
is only to be given to him if I
cable you, or if you have reason
able proof OF my death Under any
other circumstances forget that you
have it. Indeed, il is my wish that
Mrs. Underwood take il and place il
in her own personal safety deposit
vault. I cannot tell to what search
any property of your might be sub
jected were il known that on are
my daughter"
what Do You Mcan?"
And now, my darling, 1 must
write no more. i pray that my
fears are exaggerated. that 1 may
realize the dearest wish of my heart
to spend the last days of my life
near YOU. But if it be my fate to
lay my life down in the foreign
country. remember that your un-
happy father has repented in bitter
pain for the wrong he did your
mother and you, and that his love
for you is something that defies
death itself.
Think of nae as tenderlv and for
givingly as you can.
Your loving father.
ROBERT GORDON"
The tears came again at this cry
from my fathers heart, but Lillian
stopped them by saying rather
abruptly:
You have no time for tears.
Madge. There's work for us 10 do
Let's have a look at the letter he
enclosed
The tiny package which had drop
ped into my lap as 1 opened the
letter was wrapped in strong linen
paper, and bore my own name and
address. Inside this wrapping was
one of oiled paper and inside that
tiny sealed envelope. But when I
took up the envelope to see the ad-
dress upon it my eyes met a per-
fectly blank space. There was alb
solutely no sign of a name or ad-
dress upon il.
"Oh, Lilliai what does this
mean?" I asked MY father must
have forgotten to address this en-
velope It's blank"
1T can't be. Lillian's tone was
peremptory, impatient and she al
most snatched the envelope from
me. Then she examined il from ev-
cry angle. turning it over and over
in her hands.
He can't have forgotten it" she
said at last Men of affairs like
you father don't forget things of
Importance like this"
She sat silent for a minute. then
sprang to her feet with an exclama-
ton Of impatience.
What q n absolute dolt 7 am"
she said. Invisible ink, Of course. &"
Invisible INK" I repeated DULY
my slower brain refusing TO grasp
what her swifter one had seized.
Yes. You SOC he didn't wish
this to fall into the hands OF any
one else, 50 he wrote it in invisible
ink, so that if the letter to you were
lost. the inside .etter would mean
nothing 10 the person finding the
outside one. He counted on our
ingenuity 10 di.cover it,"
"On yours. YOU mean" I said
Don't talk pOnsense," she re-
torted. "But I'm just beginning TO
realize how Gle rer your father is
One time when we happened to be
alone. the conversation turned on
invisible inks. realized now that
he must himself have guided il TO
that subje Z. lie said half playful
". half in o~-sS;N ely:
If yOull promise never TO re-
veal ii TO any one I'll tell you how
10 make inv..ible the most difficult
preparatio Of all, one Of which few
people in the world know the
secret.
\ Name That Amazed
"Of course l promised, and he
told me IN d; formula, repeating il.
and maxi II me repeat it, until il
was securely liked in my memory.
He cautioned me not to write il
down, and said carelessly'
THE knowledge might be useful
70 YOU some day
Il see now that he deliberately
did it With this contingency in view.
l am proud. to think ne trusted my