"Telegraph as soon as you can, and your mother and I will meet you in New Orleans.

I hope that this may not be exploited in the newspapers.

God knows that in our time we have had enough of newspaper notoriety.

Say nothing to any one, but come at once, and we can give for publication such a statement as we think necessary.

Of course your discovery, as a sequel to your abduction years ago and the tremendous interest aroused at the time, will be of national importance, but I prefer that the news be sent out from this place." Here the handwriting was changed, and "love," "thank God," "darling child," and emotion blots filled out the remainder of the page.
"You see," said Witherspoon, "that I have a reason for depriving you of an early whack at this thing.