It is drawn up entirely in my own handwriting, and has been duly declared correct and valid by a legal firm here, Messrs.

Rowden and Owlett.

Mr.Owlett and Mr.Owlett's clerk were good enough to witness my signature.

I wish you to consider this communication made to you in the most absolute confidence, and as I carry the said document, namely my 'Last Will and Testament,' upon my person, it will not reach your hands till I am no more.

Then I trust you will see the business through without unnecessary trouble or worry to the person who, by my desire, will inherit all I have to leave.
"I have spent nearly a year of almost perfect happiness away from London and all the haunts of London men, and I have found what I sought, but what you probably doubted I could ever find--Love! The treasures of earth I possess and have seldom enjoyed--but the treasure of Heaven,--that pure, disinterested, tender affection, which bears the stress of poverty, sickness, and all other kindred ills,--I never had till now.