"I do not desire to have it discovered on my body after death." I took the single sheet of paper and read: "Lieutenant Thomas Boyd, "Rifle Corps, "Sir: "For the last time, I venture to importune you in behalf of one for whose present despair you are entirely responsible.

Pitying her unhappy condition, I have taken her as companion to me since we are arrived at Easton, and shall do what lies within my power to make her young life as endurable as may be.
"You, sir, on your return from the present campaign, have it in your power to make the only reparation possible.

I trust that your heart and your sense of honour will so incline you.
"As for me, Mr.Boyd, I make no complaint, desire no sympathy, expect none.

What I did was my fault alone.

Knowing that I was falling in love with you, and at the same time aware what kind of man you had been and must still be, I permitted myself to drift into deeper waters, too weak of will to make an end, too miserable to put myself beyond the persuasion of your voice and manner.