The ledgers in the safe are only old accounts which would be so much Chinese to you now.

Burn them.

There is nothing else to be afraid of--I hope you will never find anything to fear.

And if circumstances should arise to bring before you the story of that which has caused me so much darkness, I have nothing to say in self-extenuation.

I made one mistake--that of fear--and in committing one error, I shouldered every blame.