Of Ionian birth
he had become a naturalized British subject, but having
grown wealthy had decided to transfer himself to Athens and
enter political life. He had consented amusedly to Vivie's
adoption of his name for her new tenancy and had given her
an old passport, which you could do in the days that knew
not Dora--she resembling him somewhat in appearance. He was
aware of her Suffragist activities and guessed she might
want it occasionally for eluding the police on trips
abroad.--H.H.J.]
One reason I have in writing this letter--a letter I hope
you will burn after you have read and noted its contents--is
to ask you to lend me for a while the services of Bertie
Adams as clerk. Of course I shall insist on paying his
salary whilst I employ him, and indemnifying him for
anything he may suffer in my service--that of the W.S.P.U. I
am fairly well off for money now. Besides the funds the
W.S.P.U. places at my disposal, I have the interest on
mother's Ten Thousand pounds, and she would give me more if
I asked for it. She has quite taken to the idea of spending
her ill-gotten gains on the Enfranchisement of Women! (I am
going over to see her for a week or so, when it is not quite
so cold.)
What business am I going specially to undertake in Mr.
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