“Dear Walter,—As it
would be quite unnecessary to explain my feelings, more especially in
connection with the last letters that passed between
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“I well know that persons in difficulty as to money feel extreme reluctance to make full disclosures, and I am quite disposed to make considerable allowance for whatever omissions occurred when we last corresponded on the subject: but this affair must have attracted, or soon attract, the notice of all who take a concern in you, and I think you will perceive that no good can, and much, perhaps irreparable, evil may come from any hesitation about complying with my present suggestion.—Your affectionate father,
