A MESSAGE FROM ELMA HEATH
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ascertained that the young girl I sought was somewhere in the vicinity of the town of Abo, the Finnish port on the Baltic.
"Poor Elma, you see, speaks in her letter of some secret, Mr. Gregg," my companion said. "She says she wishes this Mr. Woodroffe, whoever he is, to know that she has kept her promise and has not divulged it. This only bears out what I have all along suspected."
"What are your suspicions?"
"Well, from her deep, thoughtful manner, and from certain remarks she at times made to me, I believe that Elma is in possession of some great and terrible secret — a secret which her uncle, Baron Oberg, is desirous of learning. I know she holds him in deadly fear — she is in terror that she may inadvertently betray to him the truth!"
