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was my adopted home, and there I would be likely to
spend the remainder of my days. She wrote in reply that
she had always hoped to see me once more; how disappointed she was; and at the close bade me a final farewell in this world, and hoped to meet me in the next,
where partings never come.
Now, according to the old orthodox theory, there are
two distinct countries in the hereafter to which weary pilgrims of this world are said to be traveling, and having
been so long separated and so far away from my sister,
and not being sure that the track I had taken would lead
me to her celestial abode, I concluded I would go home
and ascertain the track she is on and the route she is takings that we might mutually consider and determine in our
minds touching the probabilities of a near neighborly existence in the world of spirits. Upon finishing the letter I
said to some friends present, ‘I am going to America.”
“Going where?” said three or fourat once. ‘‘ToAmerica,”
TI answered. ‘‘O, yes, we see you going; you have been
going so many times.” “But I am going this time,” said
I. “We will believe it when we see you start.” ‘Well,
that will be soon,” I said. I got onto my horse and went
to Barnesdale, and began to make arrangements for being
absent some time. This was no uncommon thing for me,
and not much notice was taken of it until someone asked
where Ferguson was going this time. On being informed,
no one would believe it. I had made three attempts before and failed. This time I was determined to go or give
it up forever. Then I knew if Idid not go I would never
hear the last of it from my friends. This was on Tuesday,