I dare
say you remember as a boy of fifteen or so spraining your
ankle in Griffith's Hole? Well Griffith's Hole turns out to
be the entrance into a wonderful cave in the limestone.
Hither came the other day a party of scientific men who
think that majestic first chapter of Genesis to be a
Babylonian legend! It appears they discovered or thought
they discovered the remains of Ancient man in Griffith's
Hole. I invited them to tea at the Vicarage and amongst them
was a very learned gentleman quite as wise as but less
aggressive than the others. He was known as "Professor
Rossiter"; and commenting on the similarity of my name with
that of a "very agreeable young gentleman" whom he had
recently seen in Gower, it turned out that you were an
acquaintance of his. He thinks it a great pity that you are
reading for the Bar and wishes you had taken up Science
instead. At any rate he hopes you will go and see him in
London one day--No. 1 Park Crescent. Portland Place.
H. V. W.
Several times in reading this letter the tears stood in David's
eyes. So much trust and kindness made him momentarily sorry at the
double life he was leading. If it were possible to establish the
death of the wastrel he was personating he would perhaps allow his
"father" to live on in this new-found happiness; but if the real
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