Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

CHAPTER VII.
Enola's adventure-The mysterious letter-Anna Maria becomes
distrustful of Dupin.
THE subjoined letter was written by Alonzo Carleton,
to his deluded Anna Maria before he was made
acquainted with the fact that she had really taken the
monastic vows; yet he was becoming sadly apprehensive,
that such would be the final result of the superstitious
training to which she was being subjected
under the direction of priest Dupin. The letter was
confided to the hand of Enola Glenn, who found
much difficulty in conveying it to the object of his
love, without the knowledge of the superior, and did
not succeed until after Maria had taken the black vail.
It was in the twilight of the evening, Enola had
stealthily made her way into the shady back-ground
of the convent premises. A stately locust tree that
stood in the rear of the building, extended one of its
strong branches in the direction of an upper window,
until it came nearly in contact with it: by the fading
light of the closing day, and the soft rays of the
evening star, which hung like a golden lamp in the
western sky, Enola espied through the clustering
foliage, looking out from the little window, a familiar
face - it was the face of Apna Maria; scarcly could
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