I should know what I had to fear.
But so many changes had taken place and so long a time elapsed since I hid this slip of paper away that I was not even sure I still retained it; but after spending a good share of the night in searching for it, I finally came across it in one of my old trunks.
"The next morning I made my test.

Perhaps, Henry, you remember my handing Mr.Steele an empty envelope to mail which he returned with an air of surprise so natural and seemingly unfeigned that he again forced me to believe that he was the stranger he appeared.

Though he must have recognized at a glance--for he was an adept in this cipher once--the seven simple symbols in which I had expressed the great cry of my soul 'Is it you ?' he acted the innocent secretary so perfectly that all my old hopes returned and I experienced one hour of perfect joy.

Then came another reaction.

Letty brought in the baby with a paper pinned to her coat.