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the nut-brown suit will probably be me. My features are plain but
good, except where I fell against the bath-taps yesterday. If you
have fallen against anything which would give me a clue to your face
you might let me know. Also you might let me know if you are a
professor at golf; if you are, I will read some more books on the
subject between now and Monday. Just at the moment my game is
putrid.

"Your niece and my wife sends her love. Good-bye. I was top of my
class in Latin last week. I must now stop, as it is my bath-night.

"I am,
"Your loving
"NEPHEW."

The next day I had a letter from my uncle:--

"MY DEAR NEPHEW,--I was so glad to get your nice little letter and
to hear that you were working hard. Let me know when it is your
bath-night again; these things always interest me. I shall be
delighted to play golf with you on Monday. You will have no
difficulty in recognizing me. I should describe myself roughly as
something like Apollo and something like Little Tich, if you know
what I mean. It depends how you come up to me. I am an excellent
golfer and never take more than two putts in a bunker.

"Till 2.30 then. I enclose a postal-order for sixpence, to see you
through the rest of the term.

"Your favourite uncle,
"EDWARD."

I showed it to Celia.

"Perhaps you could describe him more minutely," I said. "I hate
wandering about vaguely and asking everybody I see if he's my uncle. It
seems so odd."

"You're sure to meet all right," said Celia confidently. "He's--well,
he's nice-looking and--and clean-shaven--and, oh, _you'll_ recognize
him."

At 2.30 on Monday I arrived at the club-house and waited for my uncle.
Various people appeared, but none seemed in want of a nephew. When 2.45
came there was still no available uncle. True, there was one unattached
man reading in a corner of the smoke-room, but he had a moustache--the
sort of heavy moustache one associates with a major.

At three o'clock I became desperate. After all, Celia had not seen
Edward for some time. Perhaps he had grown a moustache lately; perhaps
he had grown one specially for to-day. At any rate there would be no
harm in asking this major man if he wa