Your husband was a smarter man than I am, and he came to grief, though I will say that I always warned him against that Western place.
Do you remember the old days when we had the two little homesteads, and I used to ride down from the out-station of a Saturday and spend Sunday with you and Andrew, and talk over the fortunes we were going to make?
If I had met a woman like you in those days I might have been a better man.

As it was, I made a fool of myself.

But that's all past praying for.
Now about my girl.

If you will take her, and make her as good a woman as yourself, or as near it as you can, you will earn my undying thanks.
As to money matters, when I die she will of course have a great deal of money, so that it is well she should begin now to learn how to use it; I have, therefore, given her full power to draw all money that may be required.

I may tell you that I intend to leave your boys enough to start them in life, and they will have a first-class chance to get on.
I am sending Charlie out to the West, to take over a block which those fools, Sutton and Co., got me to advance money on, and on which the man cannot pay his interest.