But, loving you, I am going to marry Richard Dawson, the
money-lender's son. And I must tell you, lest you should misjudge
me, and all women for my sake, that I shall marry him most
unwillingly. I do it because Garret Dawson holds a secret of ours
which only the sacrifice of myself can buy back. I owe so much to
the kind love which has never let me miss the love of father and
mother. But I am sure I shall not live long. You should not have
gone away and left me.
"Yours always,
"BAWN."
When I had written it I did not read it over, lest I should destroy it
with the others, but, having found a very strong envelope, I put it
within it and sealed it with the impression of my father's ring.
The only way I could hope for it to reach him was by leaving it at his
old home, which I knew he loved despite its state of ruin--or perhaps
the more because of that--and he was sure to return there some time. So
I addressed it to Captain Cardew, Brosna; and then, because I could
trust no one but myself to deliver it I stole out of the house.
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