11/14 I said I'd write because I thought it would look more respectable to Mrs.Rexford to have an uncle. And I did write; but he won't answer." This was certainly frank. It's hard to walk off with your bundle, and be all alone and afraid of a man coming after you, and being so angry. He was dreadful angry when I told him I'd come. If you'd only _promise_ not tell where I came from to anybody, so that it can't get round to him that I'm here, and so that people won't know how I lived before--" "Well, we certainly have no reason to tell anybody. |