If you do carry out your plans, some of you are liable
to get hurt, and it need not surprise anybody if some of you never get
back to Westmoreland alive.
Go Slow! Be Careful! Look Out!"
Marion was not easily panic-stricken, but it is of the nature of a
truism to say that this letter applied the severest test to her
nerves. That the writer was in deep earnest she had no reason to
doubt. She had read of so many crimes preceded by threatening letters
of this sort that the suggestion did not come to her to regard this
one lightly. Although there was no common basis for comparing the
handwriting of the two missives, one being lettered in Roman capitals
and the other in ordinary script, nevertheless she quickly dismissed
the first suspicion that letter No. 1 was written by Clifford Long or
some other Scout of Spring Lake academy. Both ended with the words
"Look Out." Plainly this was a result of carelessness on the part of
the writer. Evidently he had planned to cause her to believe that the
two letters were written by different persons, for he had taken the
pains of differentiating the superscriptions on the envelopes as well
as the contents within.
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