It is because of this that I dare to ask you.
There is a schooner that will be lying in the harbour of Souris for two or three weeks after the time that you receive this letter.

Then she will come here upon her last winter trip.

I have arranged with the captain to bring you to us if you can come." After that the name of the schooner and its captain was given, a list also of some of the things that he would need to bring with him.

It was stated that upon the island he would receive lodging and food, and that there were a few women, not unskilled in nursing, who would carry out his instructions with regard to the sick.
Caius folded the letter after the second reading, finished his work with the horses, and walked with his lantern through the now darkening air to the house.

Just for a few seconds he stopped in the cold air, and looked about him at the dark land and the starry sky.
"I have now neither the belief nor the enthusiasm she attributes to me," said Caius.
When he got into the bright room he blinked for a moment at the light by which his father was reading.
The elder man took the letter in his hard, knotted hand, and read it because he was desired to do so.