ou can have him restored to you are these: We demand fifteen hundred dollars for his return; the money to be left at midnight tonight at the same spot and in the same box as your reply-as 16)hereinafter described. Send your answer in writing by a solitary messenger tonight at half past eight o’clock. After crossing Owl Creek, on the road to 17)Poplar 18)Cove, there are three large trees about a hundred yards apart, close to the fence of the wheat field on the right hand side. At the bottom of the fencepost, opposite the third tree, will be found a small pasteboard box.
If you attempt any 19)treachery or fail to comply with our demand as stated, you will never see your boy again.
TWO DESPERATE MEN.
