He was guarded in his letter. He mentioned no definite figures. He
wrote that Ira Nutcombe of whom they had spoken so often had most
surprisingly left him in his will a large sum of money, and eased
his conscience by telling himself that half of a million pounds
undeniably was a large sum of money.
The addressing of the letter called for thought. She would have
left Southampton with the rest of the company before it could
arrive. Where was it that she said they were going next week?
Portsmouth, that was it. He addressed the letter Care of The Girl
and the Artist Company, to the King's Theatre, Portsmouth.
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The village of Brookport, Long Island, is a summer place. It
lives, like the mosquitoes that infest it, entirely on its summer
visitors. At the time of the death of Mr Ira Nutcombe, the only
all-the-year-round inhabitants were the butcher, the grocer, the
chemist, the other customary fauna of villages, and Miss Elizabeth
Boyd, who rented the ramshackle farm known locally as Flack's and
eked out a precarious livelihood by keeping bees.
If you take down your _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, Volume III,
AUS to BIS, you will find that bees are a 'large and natural
family of the zoological order Hymenoptera, characterized by the
plumose form of many of their hairs, by the large size of the
basal segment of the foot .
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