#dirk valentine

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters|| Secret of Shadow Ranch

Dirk Valentine
I like vexing your brain, because when you are thinking real hard, like when you are playing the piano, you are more beautiful than anything in the world. I am sure to be out of here before you find my treasure, but in case I am not, know that is all yours, and that you are more precious to me than ten thousand treasures put together. … P.S. I do not, and never will, hold what you father did to me against you.

Frances Humber
My beloved Dirk is no more. I shall never see him again, and now you will never see me again, for I am on my way East, there to spend the rest of my life. I will never return to the Territory of Arizona: not even when my father, when I despise with every part of my being, has left this Earth.  But know this, sweet Ellie. Dirk told me that he had hidden something of great value and that, when all was in place, he would start me in pursuit of it (he was forever inventing fanciful ways to tax my brain, and was quite clever himself.) Then, thanks to my father, he was arrested. Perhaps he wrote me from jail and his note was lost, or perhaps he grew to hate me. But he never told me how to find what he had hidden and I am too heartsick to care.

Meryl Humber
I got hold of a note Frances sent to Dirk and saw where they was going to meet. So I got a posse and we caught Dirk and now he is in jail. The judge is coming next week and I hear he is a hanging judge, so Dirk most likely ain’t long for this world. Frances won’t say nothing to me no more and ses she never will again.

Ellie Humber
See, my great Aunt Ellie was Frances Humber’s cousin. When she died, she left me a bunch of stuff, includin’ an old letter she’d gotten from Frances. In the letter, Frances said that Dirk Valentine had hidden a bunch of loot somewhere and wanted Frances to find it by following the clues he left for her. … After Valentine met his end, Frances was too broken-hearted to care about some treasure. She told Aunt Ellie that if she could find it, she could keep it.

Cashmeer Valentine
Probably his father, Cashmeer Valentine. He was a blacksmith over in Prescott. … Dirk worshipped his father, which is ironic, because by the time Dirk was arrested, his father had pretty much disowned him out of shame.