I asked him where the family was.

He said Mr.Guthrie had only two daughters; that one of them had run away with her father's clerk, and the other was married and gone to America.

He said her husband belonged to Baltimore.
This was all he knew about it, and all I could find out.

We shall sail home in about three weeks.

I thought you would like to know; so I wrote this letter to send by the steamer.