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My piano and ht; for the world of

music, as well as the world of sport and youth, I was deliberately

opening for e for that closed world of affairs

which I had abandoned Indeed, all manners of the impedimenta of a

well-to-do Japanese-cared-for bachelor were in evidence To me, each

object was faize to any gentleman for my quarters or their contents--or to

any woman, for no woman had ever seen my home I may admit that,

contrary to the belief of some, I was a rich man, far richer that I

had need or care to be; and since it was not due to ether nor in response to any real ambition ofthe truth My one great aht be best obtained in sport, in

study, or a, so much the

better Many men had called my father, stern and reat part, I suspect, in envy

that they themselves had not attained a like stature in similar

achievement But no one had ever called his son a pirate--until now!

It ht to have been happy here all these years, able to do precisely

what I liked; but soely alone in the

world I was always silent and apparently cold--though really, let me