He was summoned away, very unexpectedly.

He would probably be obliged to go as far as Texas before his return; he might be absent a month.

Business of a perplexing nature, which it was impossible to explain then, called him from me, but he would shorten as much as possible the days of absence which would be dreary and joyless to him.

I was overwhelmed with grief at the thought of his leaving me; my nerves were still weak, and I wept in all the abandonment of sorrow.

I feared for him the dangers that beset the path of the traveller--sickness, death; but I feared not for his honor or truth.