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who goes off to Constantinople this
month. Sandy Gillon writes of what
he calls "the everlasting hell". He
has been risking his life on a
Winter Expedition with what I call the Scottish
Mountaineering Club, in Perthshire.
You will be sorry to hear that
old Johnstone-Douglas's confidential
clerk swindled him out of
a good many thousand pounds, & then
committed suicide. Another undeserved
blow for that innocent family! Mrs
Douglas says they will have to
go abroad for a time till their Dumfriesshire