To ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS
December 23, [1864?], Wheeling
My dear Annie
I send you the Christmas greetings with a warmth of meaning—new and deeper to me than ever before, I think.
The past year has come to us so bright with blessing—with the mark of His…
JOHN ANDROSS
CHAPTER I.
THE Niagara Express, just before sunset at the close of a sultry July day, was puffing slowly into Lock Haven, a small lumber-town which is the key of access to the wild mountainous district of Pennsylvania, from the rich…