But then that is what every real gentleman should do for a young lady--or old one for that matter.

Still, I would like to thank him SO much.
I am not at all well: my heart gives me SO much trouble--more than ever before--and as you say nothing about coming home I have about concluded to try what a change of climate and scene will do for me, and so have concluded to accept your Aunt Tabitha's invitation to spend a few months with her.

Unless you hear from me to the contrary--which you will probably not, as the mails are so uncertain in Kentucky, you had better address your next letter to me at Eau Claire.
But I am so sorry to see by your letter that you show no signs of weariness with your quixotic idea of serving the country in the hospital.

I had hoped so much that you would by this time have decided that you had done enough, and come home and content yourself with doing what you could for the Sanitary Fair, and the lint-scraping bees.
YOUR AFFECTIONATE MOTHER.
P.S .-- Your father is well.

He will go with me to Wisconsin, and then go down to Nebraska to look after his land there.
P.S .-- I am SO sorry to tell you that Harry Glen has acted badly again.
The last letters from the regiment say that he did not go into the fight at Wildcat, and afterward was missing.