The Egyptologist
“On their way past me, I slipped money into their bag.The money itself is not an issue, as the Partnership's first wired pay• ment is due presently. There is a mist of good luck, I suppose, hanging about the worthy or at least the entertaining poor—as if their one com• pensation for their lot is to decide upon your future, or as if they are an easy way to impress whichever gods one thinks will be judging one later or clearing one's path sooner. Or, perhaps there is no surer way to prove to yours...elf that the poor are not you than by giving them your money.And then to the post, my Margaret, to find you waiting for me in the poste restante! I sniffed the envelope right there in the Cairo post office. Your precious scent was just discernible still, for all the distance trav• elled, each jealous, grasping mile snatching an atom of your fragrance.I tore open the envelope with a churning hunger for you and found your letter (?) of 19-21 Sep.I admit to spending some anxious hours pondering this fragment of correspondence, M., but obviously it was an error of dosage or postage; your sleeping draughts are quite seriously askew, or you lost the other pages.MoreLess
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