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I've been absent for the last three months, you know; but
I didn't forget you or your father a day, and you remember I wrote
you as soon as I heard of your trouble. I think your father sort
of believed in me; he never made me feel I wasn't fit to see you
or to be with you, and I'd do more for him living or dead than for
any other man."
"He did believe in you, Ralph, and he always spoke well of you.
Oh, you can't know how much I lost in him! After mother died he
did not leave me to the care of strangers, but gave me most of his
time when off duty. He sent me to the best schools, bought me
books to read, and took me out evenings instead of going off by
himself, as so many men do. He was so kind and so brave; oh, oh!
you know he lost his life by trying to do his duty when another
man would have given up. Bute and two others broke jail. Father
saw one of his assistants stabbed, and he was knocked down
himself. He might have remained quiet and escaped with a few
bruises; but he caught Bute's foot, and then the wretch turned and
stabbed him.


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