- Found in a box which is located in the room next to hideout at Pembroke Hospital during A journey to the past
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A carefully folded message with "For Jonathan - third part" carefully handwritten on the envelope.
- Reid Mansion, 4th April 1908
- My Dearest Child,
- This is my last letter for you: I choose to hide it in the Pembroke Hospital. Do you
- remember how disappointed you were when your application was rejected? I had never
- seen you so upset. For days, you did not say a word. This was the first time I realized the
- darkness you had in you, my son. A black stone imbedded in your heart, hidden to all,
- which I sometimes saw in your sister too. I feared for you both, for I perfectly knew what
- it meant to feel this gloomy mood. The dark side of the Reid; The reason why I must go,
- now that I know I'm condemned.
- I'm sick, my son. The diagnosis is irrevocable and death will soon come. I refuse to be
- seen like this by those I love. This is my fault and my decision. You're so far away now,
- learning with this doctor Carrel in Paris how to transfuse blood to save patients. Already
- thinking about how to improve the method you've help to create. I'm so proud of you,
- my son, but you can't save me. I won't be Aubrey Reid, the dying banker surrounded by
- his friends and family, unable to leave his bed. I won't stand it. I don't accept it so I left.
- Just like you left us to become the great surgeon you are destined to be. The great
- surgeon I never want to see next to me, looking at me knowing I will die soon. Keep on
- studying, My son. Become whoever you're destined to be, and do it for yourself, not for
- your old father who loves you.
- I have taken all the necessary measures to protect you, my family, of any dangers to
- come. I want you all to remember me as I was, not as I'm about to be. I leave, for I love
- you, my pearls and jewels. I do it because I have this dark mood in me I hid from
- everyone as long as I could. In a few days, I'll go where I stood when you left us for
- France. There, I'll leave a last gift for you. There. I'll vanish, never to come back.
- Farewell, Jonathan. I wish you to be as happy as I've been with you all these years. Kiss
- my Mary and my Emelyne for me. Take care of them. Farewell, my dear boy.
- Believe me ever, my dearest John. Your devoted father.
- Aubrey Reid
