I wonder if you will ever get this! I wonder if I shall ever see you again! I shall find some way to send word to you.

Mr.Rucker says he knows the captain of the boat you work on, and can get his address for me in Syracuse--then I will write you.

I am going very far away, and if you ever see this, and never see me again, keep it always, and whenever you see it remember that I would always have died willingly for you, and that I am going to build up for you a fortune which will give you a better life than I have lived.

Be a good boy always.

Oh, I don't want to go, but I have to!" It was not signed.