Soon after our partin' her letters ceased to come.

But I didn't distrust her.

That was a terrible time an' all was confusion.

Then I got crippled an' put in a hospital.

An' in aboot a year I was sent back home." At this juncture Jean refrained from further gaze at his father's face.
"Lee Jorth had gotten out of goin' to war," went on the rancher, in lower, thicker voice.