3/16 Though what Wynter could want with a solicitor---- Poor old fellow! He was often very good to me in the old days. I don't believe I should have done even as much as I _have_ done, without him... It must be fully ten years since he threw up his work here and went to Australia!... The girl must have been born before he went,"-- glances at letter--"'My child, my beloved Perpetua, the one thing on earth I love, will be left entirely alone. |