[Prester John by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link book
Prester John

CHAPTER XXIII
9/16

I do nothing but read about you in the papers.

What for did ye not send for me?
Here have I been knocking about inside a ship and you have been getting famous.

They tell me you're a millionaire, too.' I had Tam to dinner at my hotel, and later, sitting smoking on the terrace and watching the flying-ants among the aloes, I told him the better part of the story I have here written down.
'Man, Davie,' he said at the end, 'you've had a tremendous time.

Here are you not eighteen months away from home, and you're going back with a fortune.

What will you do with it ?' I told him that I proposed, to begin with, to finish my education at Edinburgh College.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books