I've been an orphan since I was four, and this woman brought me up,--though it scarcely could be called that, for she only looked on me as her assistant in the office and in her house.
"Well, one day a letter came for Azalea Thorpe.

Now, the Thorpes moved away from Horner's Corners two years ago, and we never knew their new address.

The few letters that came for them were sent to the Dead Letter Office.

This one would have been, but for the fact that it was unsealed.
"It had been sealed, but the envelope was all unstuck, and--I read the letter.

I own up to it,--I know it was wrong,--but I didn't know then _how_ wrong.