I have made a little money--not much--but some--not enough to pay Uncle George everything I owe him--not yet; another time I shall do better.

I was down with fever for a while and that cost me a good deal of what I had saved.

But I HAD to come back.
I met a man who told me Uncle George was ruined; that he had left this house and that somebody had put a sign on it, I thought at first that this must refer to you and your old arrangement in the basement, until I questioned him closer.

I knew how careless he had always been about his money transactions, and was afraid some one had taken advantage of him.
That's why I was so upset when I came in a while ago: I thought they had stolen his furniture as well.

The ship Mohican--one of the old Barkeley line--was sailing the day I reached the coast and I got aboard and worked my passage home.