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asked the trembler . `` Sit down in that chair for a few minutes , and do n't mind _ me _ ! '' and in a moment she had transferred her burden to the chair . In another she had flung open one of the end shutters of the room , drawn a small table towards the window , opened upon it her portable writing-desk -LRB- an article of use without which she never travelled -RRB- , and was hastily scribbling , though with a hand that shook a little at its own boldness -- the following note : -- WEST FALLS , Sunday , July 6th -LRB- noon -RRB- . _ Col. Egbert Crawford : -- _ You will probably recognize the name at the bottom of this , as that of one you have often seen , but of whom you know very little . No one but myself knows anything of the contents . You are discovered -- detected .