together. But Juggins somehow never got far
with his studies. He always began with great enthusiasm and then
something happened. For a time he studied French with tremendous
eagerness. But he soon found that for a real knowledge of French you
need first to get a thorough grasp of Old French and Provencal. But it
proved impossible to do anything with these without an absolutely
complete command of Latin. This Juggins discovered could only be
obtained, in any thorough way, through Sanskrit, which of course lies
at the base of it. So Juggins devoted himself to Sanskrit until he
realised that for a proper understanding of Sanskrit one needs to study
the ancient Iranian, the root-language underneath. This language however
is lost.

So Juggins had to begin over again. He did, it is true, make some
progress in natural science. He studied physics and rushed rapidly
backwards from forces to molecules, and from molecules to atoms, and
from atoms to electrons, and then his whole studies exploded backward
into the infinities of space, still searching a first cause.

Juggins, of course, never took a degree, so he made no practical use of
his education. But it didn't matter. He was very well off and was able
to go straight into business with a capital of about a hundred thousand
dollars. He put it at first into a gas plant, but found that he lost
money at that because of the high price of the coal needed to make gas.
So he sold out for ninety thousand dollars and went into coal mining.
This was unsuccessful because of the awful cost of mining machinery. So
Juggins sold his share in the mine for eighty thousand dollars and went
in for manufacturing mining machinery. At this he would have undoubtedly
made money but for the enormous cost of gas needed as motive-power for
the plant. Juggins sold out of the manufacture for seventy thousand, and
after that he went whirling in a circle, like skating backwards, through
the different branches of allied industry.

He lost a certain amount of money each year, especially in good years
when trade was brisk. In dull times when everything was unsalable he did
fairly well.

Juggins' domestic life was very quiet.

Of course he never married. He did, it is true, fall in love several
times; but each time it ended without result. I remember well his first
love story for I was very intimate with him at the time. He had fallen
in love with the girl in question utterly and immediately. It was
literal