CHAPTER XII.
Comprising a lengthy letter from, Benis Spence to John Rogers, M.D.
DEAR and Venerable Bones: Your fatherly letter came too late.

What was going to happen has happened.

But I will be honest and admit that its earlier arrival would have made no difference.

Calm yourself with the thought that our fates are written upon our foreheads.

I have been able to read mine for some little time now.