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of looking after this house is very pleasant, makes the most iron-clad 
promises about having the leaks mended — and does absolutely nothing. 
Pi’obably he feels that the cnmer (who lives in Edmonton, CanMa) is being 
swindled out of a ^ust rental for it this stramer. The house is one of 
the oldest at lyford, with thatched roof and outer walls, aM so sisiply 
built that until recent years it never was considered as a house, but 
a beach cabana to be used on weekends by the wealthy people in Nassau 
who owned it. It is square as a cube, with a peeked roof, three bedrooms 
and a kitchen, each about the size of a walk-in closet, and in the center 
a larger room with tile floor opening through wall-size screen doors to 
the flagged terrace |«.rtially roofed with thatch. It faces directly on 
the beach, and there is a dock. It is a charming, rustic place, with 
the sea breeze blowing throxigh It and the expanse of sea Just beyond, 
I should be sturprised if it cost two thousand dollars to build it. Now 
in winter it rents for twelve hundred dollars a month, and in summer it 
is supposed to go for six hundred j but we are stealing it for three 
hundred because we are doing scientific research and the owner feels 
that she wants to contribute something to the project. She could contribute 
even more by having the roof issended. If this rain continues I'll go up 
with a bunlle of palm fronds myself. 
We have something of a nystery for which I must find the answer. 
Our neighbor over on the other side of the point insists that something 
lives in close association with the black urchins in h^r rocky bay. She 
speared a batch of them to clear a path to deeper water and insists tlmt 
