I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night.
Honestly, old man, it seems too, etc.
or you may write out the ending of the letter in such a way as to suggest that much more has been said in the forepart of the message, thus:
On screen, letter, folded down to show only this:
so I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night.
Honestly, old man, it seems too good to be true. I won't be able to believe that what Morgan told me is true until I see you with my own eyes.
Until then, believe me to be
As ever, your sincere friend,
Stephen Loring.
To illustrate the way a letter will consume footage, we reproduce one for which fifteen feet were allowed.