I do not pretend to throw all the blame on Irene.

We are as flint and steel.

But she has taken the responsibility of separation, and I am left without alternative.

May God lighten the burden of pain her heart will have to bear in the ordeal through which she has elected to pass.
Your unhappy son, "HARTLEY EMERSON." Mr.Delancy's hand shook so violently before he had finished reading that the paper rattled in the air.

On finishing the last sentence he passed it, without a word, to his daughter.