I have a letter or two that my father wrote at that time giving instructions as to what was to be done with me.

I was to have the best education--as much as I liked and was capable of--and, though I didn't then, and don't now, know all the details, it's evident he furnished Watson with plenty of funds on my behalf.

We came here to Dundee, and I was put to the High School, and there I stopped till I was eighteen, and then I had two years at University College.

Now, the odd thing was that all that time, though I knew that regular and handsome remittances came to the Watsons on my behalf from my father, he never expressed any wishes, or made any suggestions, as to what I should do with myself.

But I was all for commercial life; and when I left college, I went into an office here in the town and began to study the ins and outs of foreign trade.