You have been my only friend and confidante, but I now bid you farewell, for the unknown beckons me, and from the grave I cannot write.

Again farewell, and for ever.
"Your loving and affectionate friend, "Elma." "A very strange letter, is it not ?" remarked the girl at my side.

"I can't make it out.

You see there is no address, but the postmark is Russian.

She is evidently in Russia." "In Finland," I said, examining the stamp and making out the post town to be Abo.