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`` Now , Miss Pettengill , will you allow me to make a suggestion that will free you from the further care of this document ? '' `` I do n't care what is done with it , '' said Alice ; `` but no one but Lindy must read it . '' `` That is any idea exactly , '' assented Quincy . `` I will go to Boston on the noon train and send that advertisement to the New York ` Herald , ' With your permission , I will turn that document over to a legal friend of mine . He will put it in an envelope and seal it up . He will write on the outside , ` To be delivered only to Miss Putnam , on the written order of Miss Alice Pettengill , ' and it will repose quietly in his big safe until Miss Putnam is found . '' `` That will do splendidly ! ''