that part himself. Unfortunately, I am not free to speak fully of my
own legacy yet, but I want you to know that at worst I am to receive
an amount many times more than I ever dreamt of possessing through
any possible stroke of fortune. So soon as I can leave London--
where, of course, I must remain until things are settled--I am coming
up to Croom to see you, and I hope I shall by then be able to let you
know so much that you will be able to guess at the extraordinary
change that has come to my circumstances. It is all like an
impossible dream: there is nothing like it in the "Arabian Nights."
However, the details must wait, I am pledged to secrecy for the
present. And you must be pledged too. You won't mind, dear, will
you? What I want to do at present is merely to tell you of my own
good-fortune, and that I shall be going presently to live for a while
at Vissarion. Won't you come with me, Aunt Janet? We shall talk
more of this when I come to Croom; but I want you to keep the subject
in your mind.

Your loving
RUPERT.


From Rupert Sent Leger's Journal.
January 4, 1907.

Things have been humming about me so fast that I have had hardly time
to think. But some of the things have been so important, and have so
changed my entire outlook on life, that it may be well to keep some
personal record of them. I may some day want to remember some
detail--perhaps the sequence of events, or something like that--and
it may be useful. It ought to be, if there is any justice in things,