It contained a draft for a thousand dollars, and was in these words-- "DEAR FATHER--I received your two letters.

To the first returned no answer; I need hardly give you the reason.

It was a hard, harsh, insulting letter, charging me with extensive frauds on you and others, assuming that I was in possession of large sums of money thus obtained, and imperiously demanding restitution.

As to your sources of information, I know nothing; but I trust, that before you take such stories for granted, you will, at least, look well to their authenticity.

Your second letter was in a different tone, and awoke in me a far different spirit from that awakened by the one first received.