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When the English mail came in that day, it brought with it for Clive the letter over which Juliet had spent so many hours.
He read it aloud to Lord Culvers from its first to its last word. It commenced with an earnest -- one might almost say a heartbroken -- entreaty that Clive would use his utmost endeavour to persuade Lord Culvers to call in the aid of the police, and to move heaven and earth to discover her darling sister. Her lips, unsealed now by terror as to what might be that sister's fate, told fully and freely the story of her own conjectures and fears, and then went on to explain the part she had already played in the matter.