Be careful--if not for your own sake, at least for your
little sisters'. You are young, but you are strong and powerful above
your years, and can better protect them than I could. I see darker
days yet coming--but it is His will, and who shall doubt that that is
right? I pray you not to make your birth and lineage known as yet--it
can do no good, and it may do harm--and if you can be persuaded to
live in the cottage, and to live on the farm, which will now support
you all, it will be better. Do not get into trouble about the venison,
which they now claim as their own. You will find some money in the bag
in my chest, sufficient to buy all you want for a long while--but take
care of it; for there is no saying but you may require it. And now,
Edward, call your brother and sisters to me, that I may bid them
farewell. I am, as we all are, sinful, but I trust in the mercy of God
through Jesus Christ. Edward, I have done my duty toward you, as well
as I have been able; but promise me one thing--that you will read the
Bible and prayers every morning and evening, as I have always done,
after I am gone; promise me that, Edward."
"I promise you that it shall be done, Jacob," replied Edward, "and I
will not forget your other advice.
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