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you can slightly imagine the wild savagedom of the 

 place. I have some splendid photos on glass which I 

 am bringing you ; they cost S, so they ought to be 

 good, and they are ! 



Thursday, jth August, 11.30 A.M. We are just 

 passing Cape Clear, 60 miles from Queenstown, sea as 

 smooth as glass, so I will finish this and post it. We 

 ought to catch the eleven train to-morrow at Liverpool ; 

 Hasler l meets me, and I shall be mighty glad to see 

 him." 



" CARLTON CLUB, 

 Friday, %th August 1890. 



We arrived at 6.30 all right. I did not try to 

 catch the earlier train, but had a good lunch at Liver- 

 pool, and came by the two o'clock. You ought to get 

 this to-morrow. It seems too wonderful to be writing 

 from this old club again, the leaf of the big journey 

 folded and all a thing of the past. One cannot help 

 feeling very, very thankful that all has gone so safely 

 and so well, and that so many thousand miles have 

 been passed without a * hair being touched.' ' Under- 

 neath are the Everlasting Arms ! ' only feel that really 

 and we could know no fear ; one is just as safe as in 

 one's bed, but one realises more on what a thread all 

 hangs, when you are off far away from home. I shall 

 come on Sunday, my darling, and be with you about , , 

 three. Oh ! it will be joy to see my little all in all 

 again all the wide and lovely globe cannot make up 

 to me for that." 



1 His valet. 



