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letter, by due course of mail ought to have reached you Friday morn-ing & the mail returns Saturday. But I conclude that you had no chance to write before going home friday & then no chance to send it back in time for saturday's mail. It made me feel sick at heart to day when John came from the Office & said "no letters". I feel so much alone here. There are so many to mark any error that I may fall into & none to sympa-thise. Cousin John Merrell is in my company temporarily. He occupies my tent, & reminds me constantly of Joe so much so that I have several times ^unconsciously called him by that name, & then I rem-ember with a pang of sorrow, the loved, yes, dearly loved companion of my first experience of Army llife. Good by Darling. God in Heaven bless & fill your young heart with gladness & Peace. Your Devoted John
My darling, Last Night just as (not sure yet) was about to lay my head on the pillow, filled with
and assurances of love, fills my heart with a gladness and gratitude that language is too poor to express. I wish I were with you this pleasant Sunday evening, my darling; we would talk about that visit to Cave Spring and live it over again with wakening memories of soul-thrilling pleasure. How I was a'most afraid to miss my Cousin Marg; how kind I thought she was to seem pleased all the time with my "rude, unvarnished" conversation. and how I thought no wonder everyone who knows her, speaks her praise; and she would make such a sweet little wife, just the one to cheer a body in moments of despondence with her sweet smile, and her low sweet voice raised in strains of soothing, Heavenly harmony. And then I wondered if she loved anybody; if the the sweet, mysterious emotion had
