Would it not be a good idea to have Dad, if he knows him, explain about how I went South to write it and just what it is and get his official sanction or shall I write or get the Harper's to write when I get back.

The lottery people in joke offered $10,000 if they could write the story themselves.

And sometimes I wish they would for it is the hardest kind of work.

I do not want to advertise their old game and yet I cannot help doing it, in a way.

We put in at Punta Arenas and I found a woman looking at us with an opera glass and shortly after she sent out to say she knew me and that she wanted me to come up.