Chapter 20

Letter from Alan. They always seem to arrive when I’ve about given up hope, and am ready to decide that he’s married three daughters of three former Chinese presidents. This one was so nice that I cabled an answer. He wrote: MY DEAR CHILD, I was overwhelmed by the assortment of photographs. Of course I shan’t use them to line a suitcase. I should like to use them to decorate the walls of my headquarters here. But I shan’t do that either, lest some visitor bound for New York, someone who might be for…