It may be that something will go wrong, but I’ll tell you if it does.
“ So don’t ask me any questions when I call. I am going South for a while to calm down and brace up. God knows you need one after this shock, as I do myself. I’d advise you to join her in Atlantic City and take a rest yourself. You can tell his mother gently and gradually about the mad part when you stop sending the typed notes in his name. That is all which need remain in anyone’s mind. When I call on you tomorrow Charles will have escaped. It is better that you attempt no further speculation as to Charles’s case, and almost imperative that you tell his mother nothing more than she already suspects. “You have known me ever since you were a small boy, so I think you will not distrust me when I hint that some matters are best left undecided and unexplored. It will conclude the terrible business we have been going through (for I feel that no spade is ever likely to reach that monstrous place we know of), but I’m afraid it won’t set your mind at rest unless I expressly assure you how very conclusive it is.
That I must say a word to you before doing what I am going to do tomorrow.
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