The Forest Lake Mystery by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788630627
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2020-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

XIV

When Holst returned to his home in the capital, he found, in addition to the other post, a letter from Ankerkrone, with a package of papers attached. The letter read as follows:

My dear friend,

I have been considering for some time whether I should write to you or if I should wait and see if our paths would cross. Our acquaintanceship is young, but you will believe me when I tell you that I, an old man in mind if not in years, because life has bent my back and drawn furrows across my brow, have never met a young man who has warmed my heart like you have. From the first days of my youth, I have believed that the most wonderful purpose of life would be to bequeath my name, and what life has taught me, to the person who could take up the calling that I couldn’t accomplish, that of living life how a human being should live it. My son cannot take this up because he is so distant from everything that is close to my heart. I have found in you so much of what I love and so much of what I miss and I am fonder of you than you could imagine.

Which is why I am writing to you. You sent me, without understanding it, a message that you called, ‘from beyond the grave’. You could not have sent me a more onerous message, even though it wasn’t the first time I had heard it. Holger Kurk, my old friend from my youth, has told me about his meeting with you. I now know that you know some of the events that linked my destiny to the woman whose body you found in the forest lake that day. You know far from everything, but what I am sending you here will tell you all that I am at liberty to say.

I recognised her immediately the day you found her. Perhaps you feel betrayed by my silence. But I had to hold back about all that time that had faded away, which you are going to hear about now, and you will understand why I stayed silent when there was such an uproar around me, with people wanting to know everything and spread it to thousands of unimportant and irrelevant people – wasn’t that so?

I don’t believe you will ever get to the bottom of this case. I advise you not to give up – you should not. Neither do I ask you for anything because I trust you. But I can’t help you. I am no longer in the best of health, but should our paths cross, then accept me for who I am,

Your fatherly friend,

Arvid Ankerkrone.

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