They have been playing at cross-games for the last six months. Now when Beers goes to New York to pay. Bayley a visit, she is sent back without seeing or hearing anything of him. She thinks her note did not reach him. Beers was supposed to come up with a gentleman from Litchfield, but the captain of the steamboat packed him off in one stage and Beers in another. She found herself halfway to Litchfield on the long route. The driver procured some cushions and a buffalo skin for her. She finally reached home at about 2 o'clock at night. She intended to return again but found her mother unwell and she cannot think of leaving her yet. They have just heard of the death of Thomas Parmelee . He died at Augusta of apoplexy. Mother feels bound at home on Alfred's account because he is just out of college and is beginning to study medicine. Beers has not yet thanked Bayley for the books. They opened a new world for her and gave her much satisfaction. She asks why she feels so drawn to the Catholic Church. She looks to it with longing eyes. She is professing a religion which gives her no comfort, a member of a church which does not satisfay her. She asks Bayley to pray that she finds rest and grace somewhere. She read in this morning's paper of the death of Bayley's friend John Harley . Mother talks very often about Bayley. Beers asks him to tell her of more good books. :: II-2-n A.L.S. Incomplete 7pp. 8vo.