opportunity to retrieve your character. For the sake of
your child, as well as for your own sake, I entreat you
to confess all."
"Yours ever,"
"J. PETERSON."
The third letter was that at which Mrs. Cragg had already glanced. It ran thus:—
"DEAR SIR,—"
"I have received and read yours with the deepest concern,
and there is now little more to be said."
"Unhappily, I am unable to feel as I could wish to do about