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 1 6 |              Chapter 6~THE FIRST LETTER~After leaving Mr. Ward I
 2 6 |         old servant brought me a letter from the letter-carrier,
 3 6 |     letter-carrier, a registered letter for which I had to sign.
 4 6 |          envelope and drew out a letter. It was a single sheet,
 5 6 |       end of the last line!~“The letter is not from the Mayor of
 6 6 |        lines in all. Here is the letter, of which I, with good reason,
 7 7 |       confess that at first this letter dumfounded me. “Ohs!” and “
 8 7 |          soul by reading her the letter from end to end. She listened
 9 7 |        went over this unexpected letter. Reflection inclined me
10 7 |         written this threatening letter to mock me.~To assume, on
11 7 |          discover? Assuredly the letter came from a jester or a
12 7 |          thought of showing this letter to Mr. Ward, I decided not
13 7 |         more importance than the letter with the initials, M. o.
14 8 |       recurred to me the jesting letter I had received a fortnight
15 8 |          a fortnight before, the letter which threatened my liberty
16 8 |    waited, then, to mention this letter to my chief at some future
17 8 |        awaiting the arrival of a letter or a telegram. The best
18 8 |         There came no answer, no letter, no telegram! The night
19 8 |         the fifteenth of July, a letter without postmark was found
20 9 |             Chapter 9~THE SECOND LETTER~On Board the Terror~July
21 9 |        against them.~I sign this letter:~The Master of the World.~
22 10|     OUTSIDE THE LAW~Such was the letter addressed to the government
23 10|          then, the bearer of the letter might easily have slipped
24 10|        by unseen and dropped the letter in the box. The night had
25 10|     other.~I have said that this letter appeared in facsimile in
26 10|       way that I had accepted my letter from the Great Eyrie, five
27 10|      attitude toward the present letter, neither in Washington,
28 10|      would have responded. “This letter has not the style nor the
29 10|      hitherto been lacking, this letter furnished an explanation.
30 10|  governments he had written this letter. But instead of dropping
31 10|       handwriting to that of the letter I had received from Morganton?~
32 10|       the initials with which my letter had been signed, did they
33 10|       And whence came the second letter? “On Board the ‘Terror.’”
34 10|      captain. The initials in my letter were his own signature;
35 10|        and took from my desk the letter of June thirteenth. I compared
36 10|          should be; and with the letter in my pocket, I hastened
37 10|        had spread before him the letter published in the papers,
38 10|          drew from my pocket the letter with the initials.~Mr. Ward
39 10|        asked, “What is this?”~“A letter signed only with initials,
40 10|           My chief turned to the letter again and read it carefully. “
41 10|        Strock, you have had this letter for a month. Why have you
42 10|          to it. Today, after the letter from the ‘Terror,’ it must
43 10|          said, “I will keep your letter, Strock. Decidedly, I think,
44 10| excitement caused by the defiant letter mounted steadily higher.
45 12|        who had dated from it his letter of defiance to the government.
46 12|     longer any doubt, my warning letter had come from them. It was
47 13|        her commander, wrote that letter to the government. It is
48 14|      personally that threatening letter? Why had he spied upon me
49 15|          the Great Eyrie and the letter which I had received with
50 15|         This explained the first letter sent me from the Great Eyrie
51 16|      entire world, as his public letter had suggested by its significant
52 17|   machine, I fear, recalling his letter, that the world must expect
53 17|         menaces expressed in his letter—the menaces of a madman!~