I had scarcely recovered from the first shock attending my great loss, when my husband contracted typhoid fever and died after an illness of five weeks.
"We were in Florence, Italy, at the time and I prayed that I might die, too.

It was during those dark hours that Mrs.Gibson proved her friendship for me.

She sailed for Italy the instant she received the cablegram announcing my husband's death, and brought me back to America with her.

I spent a year with her in her New York home, before returning to Denver.

Since then I have never been east until this summer.
"Four months ago I received a letter from the nurse who had charge of Mabel on the day of her disappearance.