You will never enter my house again; and not a cent of my property shall ever be possessed by you--no, not even if you were starving.

I have instructed my family to forget that such a person as George Le Dell ever existed.

Take part with our oppressors, if you choose, but be assured that the justly-merited consequences of your folly will be visited upon you.
In conclusion, I have to say, that if any more letters are received from you, they shall be returned unopened.
EDWARD LE DELL.
"Now you can see exactly how I am situated," said George, taking the letter from Frank's hand, and putting it with the others carefully away in his pocket.

"Do you wonder, then, that I am sorrowful, cut off as I am from all my relatives, with strict orders never to cross the threshold of my father's house again, not even if I am dying for want of food?
You have, doubtless, heard of the malignity displayed by the rebel leaders toward any Southerner who dares to differ with them in opinion, and have looked upon them as idle stories, gotten up for effect; but I know, by the most bitter experience, that it is a reality.

Does it seem possible that a person can be so blind, and act with such cruelty toward a son?
"When the war was fairly begun," he continued, "I kept the vow I had made--that as long as the old flag needed defenders, I should be found among them, by enlisting as fourth master, in what was then called the 'Gun-boat Flotilla,' about to commence operations on the Western waters.