_I have added one hundred francs for your return journey. You must come back. Consider the wrong that you have done to us. In the name of our mother, whose last desire it was, her last command, for the sake of father, whom you have wounded to the heart, such a noble and tender heart, in the name of Felicie and Hubert, who deserve it from you, of Germaine and your little sister, in the name of all our race, who for so many years have never given examples of anything but honesty, and who conjure you now not to upset in one day what so many successive generations have built up, come back, Maurice._ _I’m waiting for you. I shall be here to help you. I am confident that if you come back all can yet be set right. For you are not guilty. It’s impossible that you should be. From your letter I can see quite well it was not you. If there is danger for you in coming back, come just the same. It is right that you should take your turn at suffering, and you will not be cowardly enough, I know, to shun it._ _That’s all. I should like so much to feel that I have convinced you. However, if_ SHE _prove stronger than we are, if in spite of our sacrifices and suffering you can’t come back now, I shall wait for you still. I should wait for you all my life. My life is only for you and father now. You know that I shall never abandon you. Did I not promise mamma? You were her last thought. And if my letter brings despair to you, remember that it has commended courage to you. Remember these words of father’s, too: “So long as one is not dead there’s nothing lost._” _Good-bye, Maurice, I send my love to you._ _Your sister_, MARGARET.