It was addressed to Darsie Latimer, and contained these words: 'You have demanded an interview with me.

You have required to be carried before a magistrate.

Your first wish shall be granted--perhaps the second also.

Meanwhile, be assured that you are a prisoner for the time, by competent authority, and that such authority is supported by adequate power.

Beware, therefore, of struggling with a force sufficient to crush you, but abandon yourself to that train of events by which we are both swept along, and which it is impossible that either of us can resist.' These mysterious words were without signature of any kind, and left me nothing more important to do than to prepare myself for the meeting which they promised.