Edward's letter repeated his thanks to his brother for his kind promise, and took a last and affectionate farewell.

John Forster struggled for a time with his feelings; but the more he attempted to repress them the more violent they became.

He was alone, and he gave them vent.

The legal documents before him, arising from the bitterness of strife, were thus unusually moistened with a tribute to a brother's memory.

But in a few moments the old lawyer was himself again; all traces of emotion had disappeared, and no one who had seen him then would ever have imagined that John Forster could have been thus moved.