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stick in one place, and I would not. . . . And I should like to have money. I’m not likely to! . . . By the way, I wonder if those Tanami fields are all they’re cracked up to be? I’ll go there after I’m dead, for I’ve never done any mining. . . . . . Why was Alison so annoyed? I don’t think I’ve had my own way so much that they need worry about my having it now. . . . Upon my soul, I feel every now and then as if I was going to die. Not depressed, but—final.

“I hope she’ll marry a decent man—not an heiress-hunter. . . . I didn’t want to quarrel with the Straines, and the Professor was mad with me for worrying Alison. . . . Anyhow, I’m going to sleep now.”