14/24 But perhaps my father is right--perhaps it would frighten and bewilder me. At any rate he would never return to civilization; it is his idea, you know, although I am sure I do not know where he got it from, nor why he cannot bear that our name should be spoken. In short, Mr.Quatermain, we do not make our lives, we must take them as we find them. Have you done your breakfast? When I returned, Mr.Carson--for after all that was his name, though he would never allow it to be spoken--had come into the hut. |