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r 2 tito nt an pent a H t ! { 4 i : ‘« 1 a t * oy eee’ { . | within dictated limits or which ; he knew would have to stand | scrutiny to see that he was giv- \ing nothing away. ; The paper was ordinary—it could have been bought ‘any. (Proof that he’ was stlll alive where in England or on. the Continent. -But that was of na importance. . The people who had taken! ;;deliberately chatge of him, who had arranged his flight and -who, had permitted him to write this belated Jast letter to the wife he had deserted, were | Still loved her. certainly in a, position to “obtain whatever kind of letter- Paper suited their purposes. « Moscow Had it been motepaper of the Foreign Office, ar the House of Com- mons or of the Athenzw#um Club, it could stiJl have been written and dispatched in ascow, ta be posted by a Communist agent in Paris, Rome or London. The only possible points of the headed | TetteP Re’ had written C!t Ne Melind , i 1 : significance were the reference : to the new baby and the in- : formation that he’ had Melinda £2,000. This meant that the letter “ a ae ee ar ~had been written after Jume 14 sent | aod he was aware that the ~ baby had been born and was ae srl, information which ; could be obtained from the } } | years later when she went. off | | i i 7 : POG Bese lp |» But .to “Melinda the letter | qmeant-two facts of overwhelm- | ing importance. Firstly, it was jand’ disproof of the: theories then Being advanced that he s@ither murdered by + Communist ‘agents or killed. accidentally in ‘ i brawl And secondly it told ‘her what in her heart she was 's0 anxious to know —‘that he j'was dea ,. The letter, when it was re , turned to her by M15, became j one of her most treasured pos- sessions, to. be carried con- stantly in her handbag where vit stil reposed on that day two oe into the-unkpown to join the man who hed written it, - . . [World copyright) ‘= eee, eee TOMORROW: What happens to the £2,000; Melinda decides to holiday u s announcements of births". The Times and from the columns of many other news. - ~- 0 papers. SOT te Ope ee . The question of the money | ' was interesting in its connec- | tion with the timing of the . ! letter. It iriplied a close liaison | ‘between agents in Switzerland ; and London, although the letter - only stated that the money had - “been sent. It did not neces- ‘sarily imply that he knew it ‘Rhad” been received — which would indeed have been an ding feat of espronzes, a 7 ae = i vm in France; MLS call again