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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER I
12/15

It makes little difference now.
I am dead--and free.
My love to you, my son.

I hope that wealth and happiness await you.
Blood of my blood flows in your veins--and strange though it may sound to you--it is the blood of an adventurer.

I can almost see you smile at that! An old man who sat by the window, staring out; afraid of every knock at the door--and yet an adventurer! But they say, once in the blood, it never dies.

My wish is that you succeed where I failed--and God be with you! Your father.
For a long moment Robert Fairchild stood staring at the letter, his heart pounding with excitement, his hands grasping the foolscap paper as though with a desire to tear through the shield which the written words had formed about a mysterious past and disclose that which was so effectively hidden.

So much had the letter told--and yet so little! Dark had been the hints of some mysterious, intangible thing, great enough in its horror and its far-reaching consequences to cause death for one who had known of it and a living panic for him who had perpetrated it.


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