7/18 'The Princess Nastirsevitch is anxious to find purchaser for her jewels, valued more than once at about a quarter of million pounds. Wants money to clear off mortgages on her son's estate, and set him going again. Do you know of any one likely to buy in one lot? James Allerdyke.' Now, as soon as I received that from your cousin I immediately thought of a possible and very likely purchaser--Mr.Delkin, a Chicago man, whose only daughter is just about to marry an English nobleman. |