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while on parade, and has had a wonderful escape for 

 his life. 



"You would so delight in your little grand- 

 daughter. She is a lovely good little darling ; as 

 happy as possible, and wonderfully quick and 

 intellisfent for her months. I w^ould o-ive worlds to 

 be able to run home and see you, and show you my 

 child ; but I fear much that, unless I find a ' nugget,' 

 it is vain to hope for so much pleasure just now. 

 Meantime I have every blessing a man can hope for, 

 and not the least is that of your fond and much- 

 prized affection." 



Writing to his w4fe a few days afterwards, he 

 reported Godby as out of danger, and himself as 

 having "been all day busy inquiring into the 

 perpetrators and abettors of the deed, and have 

 decided on seizing one of the principal chiefs of 

 Yuzafzai and sending him into Peshawar. The 

 murderer was a servant of this Khader Khan, and 

 certainly did not come of his own idea. I shall 

 have plenty of circumstantial evidence at least 

 against him." 



On May 1 he tells his father that little Olivia 

 had just recovered from a severe attack of fever. 

 " You would so delight in her little baby tricks 

 and w^ays. . . . We look forward with intense 

 interest to her beginning to talk and crawl about. 

 Both she and her dear mother will have to leave 

 for the hills very soon, I am sorry to say. We 

 try to put off the evil clay, but I dare not expose 

 either of my treasures to the heat of Yuzafzai or 

 Peshawar for the next three months. . . . The 

 young lady already begins to show a singularity 

 of taste — refusing to go to the arms of any native 



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