The best plan will be for you not to buy anything for me till I get my holidays, when my father is to bring me to London.

Tell William John I am coming.
P.S .-- I told my father about the Arcadia Mixture, and that is why he is coming to London.
[Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER XXI.
ENGLISH-GROWN TOBACCO.
Pettigrew asked me to come to his house one evening and test some tobacco that had been grown in his brother's Devonshire garden.

I had so far had no opportunity of judging for myself whether this attempt to grow tobacco on English soil was to succeed.

Very complimentary was Pettigrew's assertion that he had restrained himself from trying the tobacco until we could test it in company.

At the dinner-table while Mrs.Pettigrew was present we managed to talk for a time of other matters; but the tobacco was on our minds, and I was glad to see that, despite her raillery, my hostess had a genuine interest in the coming experiment.