He would be glad to help in any way he could.
"Well, the story is this: My brother in his younger days before he was married, had an unfortunate experience with a young woman.

There was a child as the result.

The woman, as nearly as I can make out, married well enough, and later, joined the Mormons and went to Utah.

She did not take the child with her, for some reason unknown to me, at least; and so the boy--for it was a boy--became lost to his father, and as far as I know, to his mother also.

I don't suppose all this worried my brother as a young man; but recently, within the past few years, I should say, his conscience seems to have pricked him severely.