I concluded to drop off and send a telegraphic report to Washington, and to ask consent to go on out to my post.

I saw your note to Dunwody.

You had then chosen a new jailer.

I thought, since he was better known in this country than myself, your reputation would be safer in his hands than mine.

But as soon as I left, I began to think it over, and I resolved to follow after you, not as a jailer but as a friend.