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"Be careful! Your feather thing is sticking my eye."
Meekly the girl withdrew to a safer distance. From there she read with
amazement the six typewritten lines which was all that the letter proved
to be. They read thus:
Your father asks that, if you have any of the natural feelings of a
son, you will at once leave New York and take up your residence in
this city. This is the first request he has ever made of you, as it
will be, if you refuse it, the last. But he earnestly begs that you
will comply with it, anticipating that it will be to your decided
advantage to do so.
"The envelope that that came in," said Queed, briskly laying it down.
"Now here's the envelope that the twenty dollars came in--it is exactly
like the other two, you observe.--The last exhibit is somewhat
remarkable; it came yesterday. Read that."
Sharlee required no urging. She read:
Make friends; mingle with people, and learn to like them. This is
the earnest injunction of
Your father.
"Note especially," said the young man, "the initial Q on each of the
three envelopes.


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