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This is what Lyle read:
"DEAR MISS LYLE,--"I am writing this in great distress and in great terror. I cannot explain more. I have a powerful enemy and he is dogging my steps and watching my actions. The time is not yet ripe or I could turn the tables on him; but the day will come, and until it comes I throw myself on your mercy. Do not, I pray of you, believe what is said of me, and will be said of me, when it is known I am gone. For go I must. If I stay here he will deprive me of freedom, and without freedom I cannot act. It may be months, it may be less, before I can bring my proofs to bear against this enemy. In those months what may not happen! That is my dread; that is why at all risks I write to you.