I do not wish to talk very much about it so you will forgive me if I do not tell you any more.
"My principal object in writing to you at the moment is an official one.

I suppose I am still amenable to punishment and I have decided to surrender myself to the authorities to-night.

You used to have a most excellent assistant in Superintendent Mansus, and if it is convenient to you, as I hope it will be, I will report myself to him at 10.15.At any rate, my dear T.X., I do not wish to mix you up in my affairs and if you will let me do this business through Mansus I shall be very much obliged to you.
"I know there is no great punishment awaiting me, because my pardon was apparently signed on the night before my escape.

I shall not have much to tell you, because there is not much in the past two years that I would care to recall.

We endured a great deal of unhappiness and death was very merciful when it took my beloved from me.
"Do you ever see Kara in these days?
"Will you tell Mansus to expect me at between ten and half-past, and if he will give instructions to the officer on duty in the hall I will come straight up to his room.
"With affectionate regards, my dear fellow, I am, "Yours sincerely, "JOHN LEXMAN." T.X.read the letter over twice and his eyes were troubled.
"Poor girl," he said softly, and handed the letter to Mansus.