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Show 119 would increase the amount they managed to send him and it would further drain whatever their meager resources. How his family was faring, Lathrop didn't know. That they managed he had been assured time and time again by Thomas who came to visit him regularly. His primary concern had been for Hannah who for months had been unable to come to the prison to visit him because of her suffering from the unknown malady which had begun some time before his incarceration. His prayers for her were daily, if not hourly. His faith that she would recover could not be shaken. In the year of his imprisonment, he had grown close to his cellmate, Frank, and thought of him as one of his own. They had had long talks, sharing personal and philosophical insights. The story of Elise's unjust imprisonment and her subsequent release brought Frank a measure of hope. Lathrop further reassured Frank that God was mindful of the just and faithful, and he encouraged him to exercise faith that he would be delivered. Because of Frank, cell life was bearable for John Lathrop. Winter was here again, though, and Frank's weakened emaciated condition made him vulnerable to the sickness of the house--jail fever. At one point, Lathrop had thought that Frank was going to die, but he had made a turn for the better -thanks to a remedy Elise had brought. More than ever before he counted Elise among the Lathrop family blessings. |