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_ There _ , you may read that . ' She jerked the letter before me on the table . It contained but these words : -- Bartram-Haugh : ' _ 30th January , 1845 _ . ` MY DEAR MADAME , ` Be so good as to take the half-past eight o'clock train to _ Dover _ to-night . Beds are prepared . -- Yours very truly , SILAS RUTHYN . ' I can not say what it was in this short advice that struck me with fear .