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(If not delivered, please return within three days to Theocritus C. Benson.) “2909 Kanaka Building New York City 30/3/’15Coming across on Potassic. Depart 4th—probable arrival Plymouth 11th. Shall cable.
(Signed) Father”
With true business instinct the great organiser dispatched the cable upon the 4th of April, so that his daughter received upon the evening of the same day in her London house the reassuring word “eleventh,” which her reception of the letter a few days later easily enabled her to comprehend; and on 11th of April, sure enough, Ole Man Benson in a grave and sober manner embraced his daughter on the landing-stage at Plymouth. George Mulross Demaine was also there, standing a little behind the affectionate group, clothed in a large green ulster and a cap of the same cloth and colour with an enormous peak.
They got into the train together and all the way up to London the master of empty millions said nothing.
As they were driving to Demaine House he spoke: “Any o’ your folk to supper?” he said.