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Pickering's letter bringing news of randfather's

death found me at Naples early in October John

Marshall Glenarave

wrote, and it was necessary for atee It was the merest luck

that the letter came to my hands at all, for it had been

sent to Constantinople, in care of the consul-general

instead of 's

fault that the consul was a friend of s and was able to hurry the

executor's letter after lish financier who had, I was advised, unliineer, a graduate of an American institution fa

low, I naturally turned to edof my departure and was outward

bound on a stea's office in the Alexis Building

and listened intently while he read, with randfather's

will When he concluded, I laughed Pickering was a

serious lad to see that my levity pained

him I had, for that matter, always been a source of

annoyance to him, and his look of distrust and rebuke