Count Bunker / Being a Bald Yet Veracious Chronicle Containing Some Further Particulars of Two Gentlemen Whose Previous Careers Were Touched Upon in a Tome Entitled "The Lunatic at Large"

by J. Storer Clouston

“The letter was written by her, you see.”

“SHE wrote to YOU! Strange!”

“Very odd, isn't it?”

The Baron meditated for a minute and then inquired—

“Vat of ze Maddisons?”

“Well, I gather that Mr. Maddison is erecting an ibis house in connection with the aviary. Ri has gone to Kamchatka, but hopes to be back by the 12th——”

“And Eleanor—no vord of her?”

“It was she who wrote, don't you know.”

“Eleanor—and also to you! Bot vy should she?”

“Can't imagine; can you?”