as you would say to the P. O. & sure enough there I found the unmistakeable M.A. H.G & I don't know what military term to use to desribe the time or the gait I came back in but I expect you might call it quadruple quick, for it seems that Mr. Reich was into Lairds as I went by Mrs. R. asked me yesterday evening at prayer meeting if I got a letter; that she heard that I had been seen running up town; you must not think from this that I make myself rediculous by running in the street for a letter when it had only been five days since I had received one from the same person; but I wont say that I would not act a little impudent if I should not get one for two or three weeks, but you know that persons will exaggerate just a little about these things & I don't really think that act quite as crazy as they try to make out but seriously, your letters are the greatest earthly comfort and real happiness that I have, as soon as I receive one I begin to count the days from the time it was written & think that there is another one written & perhaps two, for it takes them from 11 to 13 days to come & O! how often I wish I could get them the day that they are written or in three or four at least, but they are always good when they do come, & always find a warm welcome I do assure you; your last that has been received was dated the 3d & 4th & was recd the 15th but I should not complain when I get a letter every week & sometimes two if they are a long time coming, when you were three or four without any word from home, how anxious you must have felt but I thank you for saying all the time that you knew that it  was not my fault, you don't know how happy it makes me to know that I have a husband that has implicit confidence in me, & one too that I know is true as steel & that I can love & think as a man in its truest broadest sense; you say in your last
