Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker/Letter 1
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LETTER I.
To Mr. Sarsefield.
Philadelphia.
I came hither but ten minutes ago, and write this letter in the bar of the stage-house. I wish not to lose a moment in informing you of what has happened. I cannot do justice to my own feelings when I reflect upon the rashness of which I have been guilty.
I will give you the particulars tomorrow. At present, I shall only say that Clithero is alive; is apprised of your wife's arrival and abode in New-York; and has set out, with mysterious intentions, to visit her.
May Heaven avert the consequences of such a design! May you be enabled by some means to prevent their meeting! If you cannot prevent it———but I must not reason on such an event, nor lengthen out this letter.
E. H.