Harold was rather mortified on the following afternoon when Merton instructed him to start next morning with a mob of fats for Byron Bay. Of course, one expects this kind of interruption on a station; but Harold thought it hard that it should come just then.
He managed, during Susman's absence, to send a note to Pat Gallagher, requesting him to defer matters until his return. He also wrote a letter to Grant Attwell, telling him of his wonderful adventures, of the recovery of his grandfather's papers, and of his confidence of meeting with further success. "I have all the keys," he wrote, "and on my return will thoroughly search the place. From what I can make out from the papers, an ancestor of yours was godfather of a kinswoman of Susman, whom he financed in some venture that set the family firmly on the way to fortune; and in consideration of this Lincoln Susman promised an endowment to the first female descendant of the Attwells. His will, I daresay, will make this more clear, though probably you are aware of the ties that bound your ancestors to those of Magnus Susman. ."
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