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 sprinkled with white costumes and backed by a lemon-yellow building. It was inscribed "Palmetto Golf Club House, Aiken, S. C."

"Dear Mums," he wrote. "Tell Hurd to carry a horse-chestnut in his pants pocket. Much love. Gordon."

He chuckled as he addressed it and dropped it into the box. His mother detested postcards, disliked being called "Mums," and thought the word "pants" extremely vulgar.