CHAPTER XXVI.
I HEAR ABOUT CAPTAIN HAMILTON It was now more than five weeks since Gladys had left us, but during that time I had heard from her frequently.
Her letters were deeply interesting.

She wrote freely, pouring out her thoughts on every subject without reserve.

Somehow I felt, as I read them, that those letters gave as much pleasure to the writer as to the recipient; and I found afterwards that this was the case.

Her consciousness of my sympathy with her made her open her heart more freely to me than to any other person.

She delighted in telling me of the books she read, in describing the various effects of nature.