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I have said that I was scarce beyond thirty years of age Even so, I

found myself already old; and like any true philosopher, I resolved to

As hitherto I had had no boyhood, I deter myself, I discovered that I had

rarely smiled; so I resolved to find soe, widest and sweetest of all ely when I entered upon my business career;

and so interested was I in my business and my books that only by

chance had I met the woman who drove me out of both A boy I had never

been; nay, nor even a youth I had always been old True, like others

of my station, I had owned my auto cars, my matched tea So, when I came hither with

ample leisure, perhaps my chief ambition was a deliberate purpose to

encos

which noith a surprised and gratifying throb of my heart I learned

it--appealed to the souls of real boys It was the castle where I

dreamed; and noas the palace of their dreams also I felt, at

least, that I had succeeded My heart throbbed in a neay, very

foolish, yet for sos and had no decorations of paint or tapestry

within Its only arras was of the skins of wild beasts--of the African

lion and leopard, the zebra,with

horn, most of the

n hunting,