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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

have cheered me up a lot had he not mentioned that Lili Neumann was dead. He did not know, of course, what Lili was to me, and I managed to say nothing. Under other circum- stances it would have been a bad shock, but just now nothing seems to go too deep. However, my face must have told him I was suffering, for he looked down so kindly, and asked if there was anything I wanted. "Because, by Jove! you can have the ship," he declared. I told him I had n't seen ice for ten months. "Just the thing," he exclaimed. A few hours later, sail- ors brought a huge rectangle of the most deli- cious thing in the world. There was also a bottle of Bols cura9ao, and a sweet note. People are good.

Mr. Dodds and Mr. Wilson and Herbert got to work on the ice with hatchets. Mrs. Dodds made ice-cream last night and again for lunch to-day.

I must stop this letter, which has been writ- ten largely on the inspiration of that ice-cream. [180]

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