"But," he said, "I could tell those lawyers what to do by myself. Isn't that right?"

"Of course," I replied, "some businessmen often do that,because they do not want any one person to know all of their business."

"Good!" he said. Then he asked how to go about delivering things to people, and what kind of paperwork needed to be done. He asked about everything which might go wrong with the deliveries, and what could be done to make sure that problems did not happen.

I explained it all to him as well as I could. At the end of it all, I was feft with the feeling that he would have been a wonderful solicitor. There was nothing that he did not think of. For a man who had never been in the country, and who obviously did not do much business, his knowledge and quick understanding were wonderful. When he was satisfied that he understood the things he had wanted to know about, and I had checked it all by looking it up the books available, he suddenly stood up and said, "Since your first letter, have you written anything to our friend Mr. Peter Hawkins, or to anyone else?"