And so far as my individual self is concerned, I feel the imperative necessity of rest and freedom.

I go to find these, even if I lose myself in the endeavour.

So farewell! And as old-fashioned folks used to say--'God be with you!' If there be any meaning in the phrase, it is conveyed to you in all sincerity by your old friend, "DAVID HELMSLEY." "Cryptic, positively cryptic!" murmured Sir Francis, as he folded up the letter and put it by.

"There's no clue to anything anywhere.

What does he mean by a bad speculation ?--a loss 'on the whole gamble'?
I know--or at least I thought I knew--every number on which he had put his money.
It won't affect his financial position, he says.