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It was a little more than a week after Edna's adventure in the Gardens, and about ten o'clock in the morning, that something happened -- something which proved that Mrs. Cliff was entirely right when she talked about the feeling in her bones. Edna received a letter from Captain Horn, which was dated at Marseilles.
As she stood with the letter in her hand, every nerve tingling, every vein throbbing, and every muscle as rigid as if it had been cast in metal, she could scarcely comprehend that it had really come -- that she really held it. After all this waiting and hoping and trusting, here was news from Captain Horn -- news by his own hand, now, here, this minute!