You ask for Joe, he is very patient, and kind and good

to us all, he and John are capital friends; and oh, Edith,

it would do your heart good to see how John devotes himself

to the poor fellow. He waits upon him like a servant,

but it is all

love

service. Joe can scarcely bear him out

of his sight. Herr Franks was asked the other day, by

a gentleman who came to sup with us, if they were brothers.

John watches all Joe's looks, and is so careful