Slight rheumatism in Sarah's shoulder.

Wants to know which side of plasters you gave her goes next skin, "SAMUEL BLOCK." An hour afterwards there flashed farther northward than ever current from a battery had gone before an earnest, cordial, almost affectionate message from Margaret Raleigh to Sarah Block, and it concluded with the information that it was the rough side of the plasters which should go next to the skin.

After that Mrs.Raleigh went to bed with a peaceful mind and slept soundly.
Frequent communications, always of a friendly or domestic nature, passed between the polar sea and Sardis during the next few days.

Mrs.Raleigh would have telegraphed a good deal more than she did had it not been for the great expense from Sardis to Cape Tariff, and Sarah Block was held in restraint, not by pecuniary considerations, but by Sammy's sense of the fitness of things.

He nearly always edited her messages, even when he consented to send them.