i travelled and i travelled but i found no em ly and i travelled home how long ago i asked a matter o days said mr i sighted the old boat dark and the light a shining in the when come nigh and looked in through the glass i see the faithful by the fire as we had fixed upon alone i called out t be it s dan l and i went in i never could have the old boat would have been so strange some pocket in his breast he took out with a very careful hand of david a small paper bundle containing two or letters or little which he laid upon the table this first one come he said selecting it from the rest afore i had been gone a week a fifty pound bank note in a sheet of paper directed to me and put underneath the door in the night she tried to her writing but she couldn t hide it from me he folded up the note again with great patience and care in exactly the same form and laid it on one side this come to he said opening another two or three months ago after looking at it for some moments he gave it to me and added in a low voice ee so good as read it sir i read as follows oh what will you feel when you see this and know it comes from my wicked hand but try try � not for my sake but for uncle s goodness try to let your heart soften to me only for a little httle time try pray do to towards a miserable girl and write down on a bit of paper whether he is well and what he said about me before you left off ever me among yourselves � and whether of a night when it is my old time of coming home you ever see him look as if he thought of one he used to love so dear oh my heart is breaking when i think about it i am down to you begging and praying you not to be as hard with me as i deserve � as i well well know i deserve � but to be so gentle and so good as to write down something of him and to send it to me you need not call me little you need not call me by tlie name i have disgraced but oh listen to my agony and have mercy on me so far as to write me some word of uncle never never to be seen in this world by my eyes again dear if your heart is hard towards me � justly hard i know � but listen if it is hard dear ask him i have wronged the most � him whose wife i was to have been � before you quite decide against my poor poor prayer if he should be so compassionate as to say that you might write something for me to read � i think he would oh i think he would if you would only ask him for he always was so brave and so � tell him then but not else that when i hear the wind blowing at night i feel as if it was passing angrily from seeing him and uncle and was going up to god against me tell him that if i was to die to morrow and oh if i was fit i would be so glad to die i i would bless him and uncle with my last words and pray for his happy home with my last breath some money was in this letter also five pounds it was untouched like the previous sum and he it in the same way detailed instructions were added relative to the address of a reply which although they betrayed the of several hands and made it difficult to arrive at any very probable conclusion in reference to her place of concealment made it at least not unlikely that she had written from that spot where she was stated to have been seen what answer was sent i inquired of mr he returned not being a good scholar sir ham kindly it out and she made a copy on it they told her i was gone to seek her and what my parting words was is that another letter in your hand said i it s money said mr it a little way ten pound you see and wrote inside from a true friend hke the first but the first was put underneath the door and this come by the post day afore yesterday i m a going to seek her at the post mark he showed it to me it was a town on the upper he had the personal history and experience found out at some foreign who knew that country and they had drawn him a rude map on paper which he could very well understand he laid it between us on the table and with his chin resting on one hand his course upon it with the other i asked him how ham was he shook his head he works he said as bold as a man can his name s as good in all that part as any man s is in the anyone s hand is ready to help him you understand and his is ready to help them he s never been fur to complain but my sister s belief is ourselves as it has cut him deep poor fellow i can believe it he ain t no care r said mr in a solemn whisper � no care no how for his life when a man s wanted for rough service in rough weather he s when there s hard duty to be done with danger in it he steps forward afore all 