But Brown never fights; no matter what they do to him, he won't fight; and he is a strong man, too, and does not look afraid.
"Have you heard any word at all of father?
I sometimes get so lonely for him and you.

I used to dream I was back with you again, and then I would wake up and find myself alone and far away.

It will not be so long now till I'm a man, and then you will come and live with me.

Oh! I cannot write fast enough to put down the words to say how glad I am to think of that.

But some day that will be.
"I send my love to Simon Ketzel and Lena and Margaret, and you tell Mrs.French I do not forget that I owe all I have here to her.