When you read this letter, the sea, for some distance, will extend between us.

We shall live and move elsewhere, but our hearts still with you.

We wish that Ernest and Frank would erect a flagstaff on the spot where we last parted with our parents.
It may be to us what the celestial standard bearing the scroll, _in hoc signo vinces_ was to the Emperor Constantine.

The place is already sacred, and may be hallowed by your prayers for us.

Our confidence in the divine mercy is boundless.