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such a test as that - That I did
not act hastily, my delay of nearly
three months proves. That I
did what you, yourself, or any other
right thinking man would have done
in the premises, it is only necessary
you sho'd know the matter fully
to understand admit.

Here are the facts. Your father
writing to our office, has, time and again,
his correspondence abstracted. There
are between himself and us four
Post offices with their numerous clerks and
agents - through all of which the letters
must pass to reach our hands. It had
been suggested time and again to your
self and the whole family that the let
ters were stolen at some one of the Post
Offices at your end of the line - but
this idea was not only emphatically
but on one occasion indignantly
objected, and as often as urged
it was combatted by the assertion that
of your belief that they were taken from
our "box by some one in the office". These
are your father's own words to me - more
than once. Now I ask you to answer
plainly: had some one made such a charge
against yourself and companions - there are
only four of us "in the office" Bragdon, Bird,
Cox and myself - what would be your feel
ings? Then comes that letter to Wright
stating that your father believed his "letters
were witheld suppressed by some interested
party." Now, Bob, who could be the "interest