Be brave, as you always have been; be good, as you cannot help being; wait and watch for me; love me, as I love you.

I will come.

Do not doubt it, I will come, and I will crush Hamilton and his command.

Courage, Alice dear; courage, and wait for me.
"Faithfully ever, "Beverley." She kissed the paper with passionate fervor, pouring her tears upon it in April showers between which the light of her eyes played almost fiercely, so poignant was her sense of a despair which bordered upon desperation.

"Gone, gone!" It was all she could think or say.