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fact, many shortcomings which have been alluded to 

 in these pages have not been known to my critics. 



As I have stated, altogether too much to my detri- 

 ment has been made out over the Ascot incident, 

 and what I was supposed to have said and done with 

 regard to Codoman's Cambridgeshire. My Editor is 

 satisfied that certain unreasonable ideas ought to be 

 altered by what has been explained, but there is more 

 to unburden myself of, and perhaps the best way to 

 do this will be to reproduce a letter I wrote to Mr 

 Luckman when he was sporting editor of The Daily 

 Express and " The Scout " of that paper. He was 

 doing his best at the time, in a series of articles, to 

 show cause why the time had elapsed for any more 



punishment. . 



Here is a reproduction of that letter of mine to him. 



ISth October 1909. 

 Dear Friend Luckman :— There has been 

 some discussion as to what you have written 

 about me which I feel may be too much in my 

 favour, for you have carefully not specified 

 certain things which are in the minds of many 

 as to what I have done wrong. 



For instance : you touch very lightly on the 

 score of my making wagers. People have said 

 to me : " Why have you incriminated yourself 

 so much by admitting that you took up betting, 

 and also not glossing over any incidents of the 

 life you have led." 



Those people never stop to think that after 

 the death of Lord William Beresford and Mr 

 Whitney I never had as a serious adviser any 

 good powerful friend who would take upon 

 himself the task of putting his hand on my 



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