There's an American family stopping here who are also planning the trip--a stunning girl; I know you'd like her.
'Of course the travelling will be pretty rough.

Perhaps you and Aunt Kate would rather visit your friends and meet me later in Munich.

If you decide to take the trip, you will have to come on down to Riva as soon as you get this letter, as we're planning to pull out Thursday morning.
'Sorry to hurry you, but you know my vacation doesn't last for ever.
'Love to Aunt Kate and yourself, 'Yours ever, 'JERRY.' He turned the letters over to Gustavo with a five-franc note, leaving Gustavo to decide with his own conscience whether the money was intended for himself or the steward of the _Regina Margarita_.

This accomplished, he slipped out unobtrusively and took the road toward Villa Rosa.
He strode along with his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the path until he nearly bumped his nose against the villa gate-post.

Then he stopped and thought.