It was--" "I remember exactly what she wrote," says Colonel Tom.
"I never knew exactly," says the doctor.

"The same mail that brought word from you that your grandfather had had some sort of a stroke, as a consequence of our elopement, brought also two letters from Emma.

They had been forwarded from New York to Tennessee, and you had forwarded them to Chicago.
"Those letters began the trouble.

You see, I hadn't told Emma when I wrote breaking off the engagement that I was going to get married the next day.

And Emma hadn't received my letter, or else had made up her mind to ignore it.