Case 176

the wife also was quiet & gentle the small house nicely & comfortable furnished. I gathered that the death of the brother and sister referred to in the letters you enclosed had aroused in him a deeper feeling of responsibility in his position as an older brother. He explained that Mrs., the aunt in the 'Case' paper, promised the father just before his death to take J. & rear him - that he had several times written to her to know about the boy, but received no answer, at last he told her that unless he heard from her, he should go to Oxford to find out the truth from her husband. On this he received the Clapton house address & wrote the letter you sent. he was surprised when I told him the boy had been at S. Chad's College more than a year & a half. His great anxiety was to know where the boy was & how he is going on, & how