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Do not seek to find her parents . It would be a fool 's errand . May God bless you and yours , and may God care for and protect Rosalie -- the name she shall bear . '' Obviously , there was no signature and absolutely no clew to the identity of the writer Two telegraph line repairers who had been working near Crow 's house during the night , repairing damage done by the blizzard , gave out the news that they had seen a cloaked and mysterious-looking woman standing near the Methodist Church just before midnight , evidently disregarding the rage of the storm . The sight was so unusual that the men paused and gazed at her for several minutes . One of them was about to approach her when she turned and fled down the side street near by . `` Was she carryin ' a big bundle ? ''