I wrote to old MacSkelpie about it, but he didn't seem to understand or to be at all anxious--he is not the heir! He said that probably Rupert Sent Leger--he, too, keeps to the old spelling--did not know of his uncle's death, or he would have taken steps to relieve our anxiety.

Our anxiety, forsooth! We are not anxious; we only wish to _know_.

And if we--and especially me--who have all the annoyance of thinking of the detestable and unfair death-duties, are anxious, we should be so.

Well, anyhow, he'll get a properly bitter disappointment and set down when he does turn up and discovers that he is a pauper without hope! * * * * * To-day we (father and I) had letters from Mr.Trent, telling us that the whereabouts of "Mr.Rupert Sent Leger" had been discovered, and that a letter disclosing the fact of poor Uncle Roger's death had been sent to him.

He was at Titicaca when last heard of.