Presently he drew forth a stout volume.
"'Wild Brazil'," he read, "by George Gathercole-do you know Gathercole ?" John was filling his pipe from a big blue jar on his desk and nodded.
"Met him once--a taciturn devil.

Very short of speech and, like all men who have seen and done things, less inclined to talk about himself than any man I know." Kara looked at the book with a thoughtful pucker of brow and turned the leaves idly.
"I've never seen him," he said as he replaced the book, "yet, in a sense, his new journey is on my behalf." The other man looked up.
"On your behalf ?" "Yes--you know he has gone to Patagonia for me.

He believes there is gold there--you will learn as much from his book on the mountain systems of South America.

I was interested in his theories and corresponded with him.

As a result of that correspondence he undertook to make a geological survey for me.