So far from being abashed when he saw me, he took the occasion to tell me what he will, I know, pardon me for thinking an inexcusable untruth.

He had written, he said, to the poor woman telling her, dying as he believed her to be, to come down to Bhamo by boat to see me.
In Bhamo I stayed in the comfortable house of the Deputy Commissioner, and was treated with the most pleasant hospitality.

To my regret, the Deputy Commissioner was down the river, and I did not see him.

He is regarded as one of the ablest men in the service.

His rise has been rapid, and he was lately invested with the C.I.E .-- there seems, indeed, to be no position in Burma that he might not aspire to.