Louis and I have talked it over in the last fortnight and we came to the conclusion that you must make no provision for me at present.
We wish to begin very simply and make our own way.

Besides I know from something I heard Acton say that even very wealthy people are hard pressed for ready money; and so Phil Gatewood acted as our attorney and Mr.Cuyp's firm as our brokers and now the Union Pacific and Government bonds have been transferred to Colonel Vetchen's bank subject to your order--is that the term ?--and the two blocks on Lexington Avenue now stand in your name, and Cuyp, Van Dine, and Siclen sold all those queer things for me--the Industrials, I think you call them--and I endorsed a sheaf of certified checks, making them all payable to your order.
"Dad, dear--I cannot take anything of that kind from you....

I am very, very tired of the things that money buys.

All I shall ever care for is the quiet of unsettled places, the silence of the hills, where I can study and read and live out the life I am fitted for.

The rest is too complex, too tiresome to keep up with or even to watch from my windows.
"Dear dad and dear mother, I am a little anxious about what Acton said to Gray--about money troubles that threaten wealthy people.
And so it makes me very happy to know that the rather overwhelming fortune which you so long ago set aside for me to accumulate until my marriage is at last at your disposal again.
Because Gray told me that Acton was forced to borrow such frightful sums at such ruinous rates.