I only ask one thing of you as a dying request.
Stand by them when I am gone, and let them not be wronged while he is able to do them right.

Stand by them as a brother; and if you have anything within you owing to my memory, who have bestowed on you the best gift I have to give, let them not be injured and trampled on by false pretences and unnatural reflections.

I hope they will want no help but that of comfort and council; but that they will indeed want, being too easy to be managed by words and promises." The postscript to the letter shows that Baker had written to him about selling the house, which, it may be remembered, was the security for Mrs.Baker's portion, and had inquired about a policy of assurance.

"I wrote you a letter some months ago, in answer to one from you, about selling the house; but you never signified to me whether you received it.

I have not the policy of assurance; I suppose my wife, or Hannah, may have it." Baker's ignoring the previous letter about the house seems to signify that it was unsatisfactory.