MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR 5 



to keep a record of his articles — ^the order and 

 date of composition, the titles, the various 

 papers and magazines where they were offered, 

 rejected and finally accepted, and the prices 

 received (or sometimes no^ received). Ultimately 

 his work found regular acceptance, first in the 

 Evening Standard, and later in the Standard, 

 then under the editorship of Mr. G. Byron Curtis. 

 When, in 1901, he returned to Llandyssul he 

 was under agreement to supply the Standard 

 with an average of (I believe) three articles 

 monthly at special rates. 



His second period of residence afc Llandyssul 

 opened with bright prospects. The bank had 

 constructed new premises, and the agency was 

 now turned into an independent branch. Rees 

 was the youngest manager in the service. In 

 addition to salary and house, he was now draw- 

 ing a regular income from his journalistic work 

 and had ample opportunity for the pursuits he 

 loved. But even in this short space of time 

 much was changed. Formerly Dol-llan, the 

 house across the river, had been rented by a 

 keen and widely-travelled sportsman, who 

 remained one of Rees's life-long friends ; but 

 the house was now empty and its upper garden 

 — ^the " ruined garden " of lanto — had become a 

 tangled wilderness. " lanto " himself, his old 

 river companion and tutor, was dead. Rees's 



