And the ministers set the pumps going again, with the letter to work the handles.
But meantime Brother Page had been agitating.

He had not visited the penitentiary, but he had sent a copy of the illustrious letter to the chaplain of that institution, and accompanied it with--apparently inquiries.

He got an answer, dated four days later than that other Brother's reassuring epistle; and before my article was complete, it wandered into my hands.

The original is before me, now, and I here append it.

It is pretty well loaded with internal evidence of the most solid description-- STATE'S PRISON, CHAPLAIN'S OFFICE, July 11, 1873.
DEAR BRO.