We are of opinion that she has privately turned her dresses and
jewelry into money; that she had the one trunk she took with her removed
from the house yesterday; and that she left us this morning on foot.
The answers given by one of the servants are so unsatisfactory that we
believe the woman has been bribed to assist her; and has managed all
those arrangements for her flight which she could not have safely
undertaken by herself.
"Of the immediate object with which she has left us, I entertain no
doubt.
"I have reasons (which I can tell you at a fitter time) for feeling
assured that she has gone away with the intention of trying her
fortune on the stage. She has in her possession the card of an actor
by profession, who superintended an amateur theatrical performance at
Clifton, in which she took part; and to him she has gone to help her.
I saw the card at the time, and I know the actor's name to be Huxtable.
The address I cannot call to mind quite so correctly; but I am almost
sure it was at some theatrical place in Bow Street, Covent Garden. Let
me entreat you not to lose a moment in sending to make the necessary
inquiries; the first trace of her will, I firmly believe, be found at
that address.
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