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McPherson
was
positive
as
to
the
writing
,
and
the
fact
that
it
contained
a
remittance
of
a
hundred
dollars
in
five
-
dollar
notes
was
enough
in
itself
to
discount
the
idea
of
a
hoax
.
No
address
was
given
in
the
letter
,
which
ran
in
this
way
:
MY
DEAR
WIFE
,
—
"
I
have
been
thinking
a
great
deal
,
and
I
find
it
very
hard
to
give
you
up
.
The
same
with
Lizzie
.
I
try
to
fight
against
it
,
but
it
will
always
come
back
to
me
.
I
send
you
some
money
which
will
change
into
twenty
English
pounds
.
This
should
be
enough
to
bring
both
Lizzie
and
you
across
the
Atlantic
,
and
you
will
find
the
Hamburg
boats
which
stop
at
Southampton
very
good
boats
,
and
cheaper
than
Liverpool
.
If
you
could
come
here
and
stop
at
the
Johnston
House
I
would
try
and
send
you
word
how
to
meet
,
but
things
are
very
difficult
with
me
at
present
,
and
I
am
not
very
happy
,
finding
it
hard
to
give
you
both
up
.
So
no
more
at
present
,
from
your
loving
husband
,
"
James
McPherson
.
"
For
a
time
it
was
confidently
anticipated
that
this
letter
would
lead
to
the
clearing
up
of
the
whole
matter
,
the
more
so
as
it
was
ascertained
that
a
passenger
who
bore
a
close
resemblance
to
the
missing
guard
had
travelled
from
Southampton
under
the
name
of
Summers
in
the
Hamburg
and
New
York
liner
Vistula
,
which
started
upon
the
7th
of
June
.
Mrs
.
McPherson
and
her
sister
Lizzie
Dolton
went
across
to
New
York
as
directed
and
stayed
for
three
weeks
at
the
Johnston
House
,
without
hearing
anything
from
the
missing
man
.
It
is
probable
that
some
injudicious
comments
in
the
Press
may
have
warned
him
that
the
police
were
using
them
as
a
bait
.
However
,
this
may
be
,
it
is
certain
that
he
neither
wrote
nor
came
,
and
the
women
were
eventually
compelled
to
return
to
Liverpool
.
And
so
the
matter
stood
,
and
has
continued
to
stand
up
to
the
present
year
of
1898
.
Incredible
as
it
may
seem
,
nothing
has
transpired
during
these
eight
years
which
has
shed
the
least
light
upon
the
extraordinary
disappearance
of
the
special
train
which
contained
Monsieur
Caratal
and
his
companion
.
Careful
inquiries
into
the
antecedents
of
the
two
travellers
have
only
established
the
fact
that
Monsieur
Caratal
was
well
known
as
a
financier
and
political
agent
in
Central
America
,
and
that
during
his
voyage
to
Europe
he
had
betrayed
extraordinary
anxiety
to
reach
Paris
.
His
companion
,
whose
name
was
entered
upon
the
passenger
lists
as
Eduardo
Gomez
,
was
a
man
whose
record
was
a
violent
one
,
and
whose
reputation
was
that
of
a
bravo
and
a
bully
.
There
was
evidence
to
show
,
however
,
that
he
was
honestly
devoted
to
the
interests
of
Monsieur
Caratal
,
and
that
the
latter
,
being
a
man
of
puny
physique
,
employed
the
other
as
a
guard
and
protector
.
It
may
be
added
that
no
information
came
from
Paris
as
to
what
the
objects
of
Monsieur
Caratal
’
s
hurried
journey
may
have
been
.
This
comprises
all
the
facts
of
the
case
up
to
the
publication
in
the
Marseilles
papers
of
the
recent
confession
of
Herbert
de
Lernac
,
now
under
sentence
of
death
for
the
murder
of
a
merchant
named
Bonvalot
.
This
statement
may
be
literally
translated
as
follows
:
"
It
is
not
out
of
mere
pride
or
boasting
that
I
give
this
information
,
for
,
if
that
were
my
object
,
I
could
tell
a
dozen
actions
of
mine
which
are
quite
as
splendid
;
but
I
do
it
in
order
that
certain
gentlemen
in
Paris
may
understand
that
I
,
who
am
able
here
to
tell
about
the
fate
of
Monsieur
Caratal
,
can
also
tell
in
whose
interest
and
at
whose
request
the
deed
was
done
,
unless
the
reprieve
which
I
am
awaiting
comes
to
me
very
quickly
.
Take
warning
,
messieurs
,
before
it
is
too
late
!
You
know
Herbert
de
Lernac
,
and
you
are
aware
that
his
deeds
are
as
ready
as
his
words
.
Hasten
then
,
or
you
are
lost
!
"
At
present
I
shall
mention
no
names
—
if
you
only
heard
the
names
,
what
would
you
not
think
!
—
but
I
shall
merely
tell
you
how
cleverly
I
did
it
.
I
was
true
to
my
employers
then
,
and
no
doubt
they
will
be
true
to
me
now
.
I
hope
so
,
and
until
I
am
convinced
that
they
have
betrayed
me
,
these
names
,
which
would
convulse
Europe
,
shall
not
be
divulged
.
But
on
that
day
.
.
.
well
,
I
say
no
more
!
