Meredith Nicholson

The House of a Thousand Candles illustrated Meredith Nicholson

Pickering's letter bringing news of my grandfather's death found me at Naples early inOctober. John Marshall Glenarm had died in June. He had left a will which gave me hisproperty conditionally, Pickering wrote, and it was necessary for me to return immediatelyto qualify as legatee. It was the merest luck that the letter came to my hands at all, for it hadbeen sent to Constantinople, in care of the consul-general instead of my banker there.