Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table.

I had said to her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had married my boy all might have been well with him.

Perhaps it was thoughtless of me to say so.

It is to that remark that she refers in this note: "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune might never have occurred.

I cannot, with this thought in my mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must leave you forever.