In Love's Hands by Bertha M. Clay — Read

Susan Denham -- never a very good correspondent -- had only written once to Florence since she had been residing at Orwell Court, and that was to regret the length of time Miss Heriton's letter announcing her father's death had lain unopened, owing to her own absence from home and subsequent illness.

But soon after Mrs. Blunden had established herself at Babbicombe Bay a letter was forwarded to Florence in Susan's handwriting. It was written in some agitation. A paper, reporting Lieutenant Mason's death, had been sent to her from New York, with the paragraph underlined; and though the direction was evidently in a disguised hand, Susan felt sure that she recognized some of Julia's bold down strokes, and was now all anxiety to obtain further information concerning her unhappy cousin.