‘“When you, who love me so much better than I ever have deserved, even when my mind was innocent, see this, I shall be far away.”’

‘I shall be fur away,’ he repeated slowly.

‘Stop! Em’ly fur away. Well!’

‘“When I leave my dear home — my dear home — oh, my dear home! — in the morning,”’

the letter bore date on the previous night:

‘“ — it will be never to come back, unless he brings me back a lady. This will be found at night, many hours after, instead of me. Oh, if you knew how my heart is torn. If even you, that I have wronged so much, that never can forgive me, could only know what I suffer!