I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl, " he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.

Erik Larson
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In this letter, he asks the young woman to give herself up when she comes in. He tells her to expect to give herself in. It was a heavy request and a heavy matter, but she did it anyway. She went to him at night and when she came in, she became his lover.

She was the one that gave herself in completely, even though it meant her own demise. He never knew that she would be taken from him by a man who was supposed to protect her.

Source: The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America

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