9/16 I do nothing but read about you in the papers. What for did ye not send for me? 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. 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. |