Everet stooped and picked it up to return it to its place, but the instant the writing met his eye, the hot blood mounted to his brow, and he exclaimed, in a startled tone:
“At last I have found it!”
It was the other half of that letter, which had been torn in two, and which he had found caught in the writing-desk during his previous visit to the cottage. And this is how it appeared:
“Santa Fe, June 10, 18—.
NIE:
It is with deep pain and just learned of the death of se I know that this leaves annuity which was hers se and your future is tle friend! I can say n how vain and me; but, believe me, my you, and were it pos- and strive to cheer I am now going to ask a e been friends during all our not refuse me.
the cottage. Let it be still as it has been in the any restrictions.
alone, for it would secure some com- n yourself who will . Do not mind the that we are relatives in this extremity.
ck sufficient for when I return ent arrangement I shall be very you.
our friend,