The young doctor didn't altogether relish this course, nevertheless he trusted in his friend, wrote the letter, and gave it into his hands.
"He never saw his friend after that day.

The next morning came an answer from the young lady--a cruel and cold rejection of him--repudiation of his love, and a doubt of his honor.

It bewildered him, and, for a time, crushed him.

Long afterward, he found out that she had never seen the letter he wrote, but a very different one, of his friend's concoction.
"Very soon afterward, they were gone--all three! and, before a year was passed, he heard that his friend and the daughter were married, and the father died of a fever contracted in Spain.
"He tried to go on as usual for several months, but it was no use.

At last, he left his practice, and all his connections, and wandered over the United States--through towns and wildernesses.