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this is nonsense and not at all what I started out to write.

"I am a very busy young person and I don't get around the world much, and so I don't think we shall meet again. But please remember, if you care to do so, that I am wishing you all sorts of success—the kind that doesn't know discouragement!—and all happiness.

"Sincerely, "."

Miles slowly put the note back in its envelope and dropped it in his pocket. Then he sat for a long while staring bewilderedly at the dusty road. It seemed such a queer sort of thing to have happened. It had never occurred to him that he might fail. He had fallen in love with the Princess suddenly and thoroughly and with no thought as to results; it had been enough to see her and listen to her voice; there had been no looking