Jerusalem's Lot

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How good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at Chapelwaite, every bone in an ache

from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladder—and to see a letter

addressed in your own inimitable scrawl propped on the obscene little cherry-wood table beside the

door! Be assured that I set to deciphering it as soon as the needs of the body were attended to (in a

coldly ornate downstairs bathroom where I could see my breath rising before my eyes).

I'm glad to hear that you are recovered from the miasma that has so long set in your lungs, al -

though I assure you that I do sympathize with the moral dilemma the cure has affected you with. An

ailing abolitionist healed by the sunny climes of slavestruck Honda! Still and all, Bones, I ask you as

a friend who has also walked in the valley of the shadow, to take all care of yourself and venture not

back to Massachusetts until your body gives you leave. Your fine mind and incisive pen cannot serve