"
He did not require the cipher book. A fourth reader child could have
read the message without a halt. Maud had taken his request
literally. He had asked her to send him a nice long message, but he
did not expect her to make a four-page letter of it. She was paying
him out with a vengeance!
He took the precaution to read it before handing it over to his wife,
to whom it was addressed in conjunction with himself:
"Dear father and mother," it began--(and he looked at the date line
again to make sure it was from Paris)--"in reply to your esteemed
favour of the nineteenth, or possibly the twentieth, I beg to inform
you that I arrived safely in Paris as per schedule. Regarding the
voyage, it was delightful. We had one or two rough days. The rest of
the time it was perfectly heavenly. I met two or three interesting
and amusing people on board and they made the time pass most
agreeably. I think I wired you that I had a glimpse of a certain
person. On my arrival in Paris I was met at the station by friends
and taken at once to the small, exclusive hotel where they are
stopping for the summer.
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