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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: seen before, and there was no signature.
"This strange letter demanded of me that I should write to my
guardian, calmly and clearly, to say that for reasons which I did
not intend to reveal, I had taken my own life. If I did this my
present place of sojourn would be exchanged for a far more agreeable
one, and I would soon be quite free. But if I did not do it, I
would actually be put to death. A pen, ink and paper were ready
there for the answer.
Never, I wrote. And then despair came over me, and I may have
indeed appeared insane. The old woman came in. I entreated and
implored her to tell me why this dreadful fate should have overtaken
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