Chapter 19 No.19

To Hugh Pontrex, Hotel Montana, Biarritz.

91b Harley Street, W.,

July 16, 1910.

My dear Hugh,

So the pendulum of our frailty swings. The warm airs of July have surrounded you with well-being in your Atlantic quarters, and a confounded carbuncle under my left shoulder has been painting my world quite black for at least four days, and gre