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glamour fades, they see each other in better lights, and they bear and forbear, helping each other tenderly when either stumbles. But they know that something more than self is necessary, and thus, looking upward, they pass on. X X X X Thank Goodness! I have been called on for the performance of a certain duty which admitted of no delay, and so have been brought back to my existence. You ought to be very thankful, as else I should quite likely have spun the thread of my interminable terminology through another sheet. Behold how the Fates protect you. I think you may begin to look for important developments in this Department, soon. It would take too long a time to tell you why, and I do not know that I could render myself clear. The occult science known as "Military Strategy" is as incomprehensible to me as are the whims of a beautiful coquette. But I think I scent the odor of "villiannous saltpetre," and it is quite possible that (as an ardent Irishman wrote to his wife;) when I next write to you I may be dead. Will you be good enough to make my remembrances to your Sister; and I should be glad to hear from you both. Richard Realf.