We leave the package of greenbacks which we took from Colonel Clinch in the Sierra coach, but which was first stolen by Harkins from forty-four shareholders of the Excelsior Ditch.

We have no right to say what YOU should do with it, but if you aren't tired of following the same line of justice that induced you to run after US, you will try to restore it to its rightful owners.
"We leave you another trifle as an evidence that our intrusion into your affairs was not without some service to you, even if the service was as accidental as the intrusion.

You will find a pair of boots in the corner of your closet.

They were taken from the burglarious feet of Manuel, your peon, who, believing the three ladies were alone and at his mercy, entered your house with an accomplice at two o'clock on the morning of the 21st, and was kicked out by "Your obedient servants, "GEORGE LEE & EDWARD FALKNER" Hale's voice and color changed on reading this last paragraph.

He turned quickly towards his wife; Kate flew to the closet, where the muffled boots of Manuel confronted them.