I enclose a power of attorney.

When I want money I shall call upon Colvin.

I may be gone for years and perhaps forever.
'I shall never marry, and when I die, what I have will naturally go to you.

We have not been to each other much like brothers for the past few years, but I do not forget the old home in the mountains where we were boys together, and played, and quarreled, and slept up under the roof, where the blankets were hung to keep the snow from sifting through the rafters upon our bed.
'And, Frank, do you remember the bitter mornings, when the thermometer was below zero, and we performed our ablutions in the wood-shed, and the black-eye you gave me once for telling mother that you had not washed yourself at all, it was so cold?
She sent you from the table, and made you go without your breakfast, and we had ham and johnny-cake toast that morning, too.

That was long ago, and our lives are different now.