He has purchased my time, but not even HIS wealth can purchase my conscience too.* * NOTE.

ADDED BY FRANKLIN BLAKE .-- Miss Clack may make her mind quite easy on this point.

Nothing will be added, altered or removed, in her manuscript, or in any of the other manuscripts which pass through my hands.

Whatever opinions any of the writers may express, whatever peculiarities of treatment may mark, and perhaps in a literary sense, disfigure the narratives which I am now collecting, not a line will be tampered with anywhere, from first to last.

As genuine documents they are sent to me--and as genuine documents I shall preserve them, endorsed by the attestations of witnesses who can speak to the facts.