Some years since, this would have
cost a serious expenditure of time and money. Luckily for our purpose,
the country theaters are in a bad way. Excepting the large cities,
hardly one of them is open, and we can keep our eye on them, with little
expense and less difficulty.
"These are the steps which I think it needful to take at present. If you
are of another opinion, you have only to give me your directions, and I
will carefully attend to the same. I don't by any means despair of our
finding the young lady and bringing her back to her friends safe and
well. Please to tell them so; and allow me to subscribe myself, yours
respectfully,
"ABRAHAM BULMER."
V.
_Anonymous Letter addressed to Mr. Pendril._
"SIR--A word to the wise. The friends of a certain young lady are
wasting time and money to no purpose. Your confidential clerk and your
detective policeman are looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. This is
the ninth of October, and they have not found her yet: they will as soon
find the Northwest Passage. Call your dogs off; and you may hear of the
young lady's safety under her own hand. The longer you look for her, the
longer she will remain, what she is now--lost.
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