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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER V
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And remember, if you are in _any_ difficulty about your career that a little money can get over do not hesitate to apply to me.
Your loving father, HOWEL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
P.S.I have taken five days to write this but see how steady the handwriting is.

It is a pleasure to me to look on my own handwriting again.

And I feel I owe it all to you! I also forgot in the body of the letter to tell you one curious thing.

You know we are here on the borders of an interesting vein of limestone which runs all round the coal beds.

I dare say you remember as a boy of fifteen or so spraining your ankle in Griffith's Hole?
Well Griffith's Hole turns out to be the entrance into a wonderful cave in the limestone.
Hither came the other day a party of scientific men who think that majestic first chapter of Genesis to be a Babylonian legend! It appears they discovered or thought they discovered the remains of Ancient man in Griffith's Hole.


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