7/15 He felt that he was branded as a felon. It was not mercy, but justice, that he wanted. When I read in one of the Maine papers the account of your misfortune, I felt that you had been grossly wronged. You were coupled with that Tom Spicer, who is the most consummate little villain I ever saw, and I understood your situation. Ah, Bobby, your only mistake was in having anything to do with that fellow." "I left him at Brunswick because he began to behave badly; but he joined me again at Augusta. |