Your father can't have received the letter."
"So I think, Miss Stone; but I directed it all right."
"Do you think any one would intercept it?"
"Mrs. Estabrook might," said Herbert, after a pause for
consideration.
"Who is she?"
"The housekeeper."
"What makes you think so? Didn't she like you?"
"No; besides, it was her nephew who carried me off."
Miss Stone asked further questions, and Herbert told her all the
particulars with which the reader is already acquainted. When he had
finished, she said: "My advice is, that you write to your boy
friend, Grant Thornton, or tell me what to write, and I will write
to him. His letters will not be likely to be tampered with."
"I think that will be a good idea," said Herbert; "Grant will tell
papa, and then he'll send for me."
Miss Stone brought her desk to the bedside, and wrote a letter to
Grant at Herbert's dictation. This letter she sent to the village
postoffice immediately by Abner.
CHAPTER XXXVI
GRANT RECEIVES A LETTER
Mr. Reynolds had spared no expense in his efforts to obtain tidings
of his lost boy. None of his agents, however, had succeeded in
gaining the smallest clew to Herbert's whereabouts.
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