Winchester, after the rifle. (brassarsenal) wrote in gaslightlegends, @ 2008-12-04 10:57:00 |
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Letter from Pastor James Murphy, Balally Parish, New York to John Winchester, Leavenworth, Kansas. January 3, 1867 My good Friend, -- If by some chance you have sent me a letter as we agreed some weeks before last Christmas, I have not received it. You and I know each other too well for this to truly be chance, however, and I think I will not do you the honor of assuming a message has gone astray. You are trying very hard to ignore me, John, and I will not have it. I am well aware what you think of the Church, but if you will not confide in me beyond the few casual words I wrested from you in November, I urge you to find someone--if not a man of the cloth, than at least one of our ilk--that can lend you a helpful ear. It has more value than you know. Now that our usual conversation has concluded--to which I am aware you ignore to the best of your ability--I have more serious business to address. Undoubtedly I endanger my life with the following; you have become a very hard man, John Winchester, and though I don't think less of you for it, it is still true. Think of the children, John. I wish to God I'd had a better constitution to argue with you about placing them in my care while you were out hunting this creature of flame that took Mary from this world. (Yes, I do believe that it was a creature and not the Lord Himself, by some accident or divine providence. I pray that He has her soul in His dominion. -- I hear you scoffing, John. You try my patience. Mary would agree with me.) The path you tread cannot be safe for them, despite Dean's outburst on your behalf in the midst of our shouting match. (The boy worships you, John. If you insist on walking with your eyes closed, sooner or later you will trip.) From your expression I think you do not hear from Dean very often, indeed, that was as many words as I heard from him the entire visit, and I would be both blind and an embarrassment to my calling if I did not notice. Are you not concerned? Has he not spoken with you at length since that night? Were it not for Sammy's good-natured wailing, I may have thought I had no guests at all, you with your looming and Dean with his pale vanishing, into the wallpaper, like a ghost. John, wake up! Do something about Dean's reticence before it worsens. If you won't ask for my help at least talk to the boy. You heard me. Sit down and ask how he is instead of all this gruff ordering from here to there. You lost your wife but the boy lost his mother. With the Grace of God, [Signed] Jim Murphy Letter from John Winchester, Leavenworth, Kansas to Pastor James Murphy, Balally Parish, New York January 27, 1867 Jim -- Mind your own affairs. [Simply] J |