"These two men are your mother's brothers, who arrived today--just a short while back--as I hoped with pleasant tidings.

Now have we learned a different tale.

Their old father and Charles's wife and children have been brutally murdered by Indians, and he himself escaped as by a miracle.

We have been telling the tale to the Assembly this very afternoon.

Ah, it would have moved hearts of stone to hear Charles's words! I pray Heaven that something may soon be done.