There is no time, now, to tell you all that has happened.

That I can do, afterwards.

All that is important for you to know, is, that Mother is quite well.

She has never given up hope, and has always insisted that you were alive, for she said that she should surely have known, if you had died.

So she taught me her language, until I could speak like a native; and two years and a half ago, she came out here with me.
"I accompanied the army, with my uncle's troop, and searched every hill fort they took, for you.