I first came to know him about go. I read one of his twilight in the Forbidden I decided then that I must get know the brilliant man who nad m it. I arranged to be intro-Juced io him, and since then we be-me inseparable friends.
In his will he left me a letter asking me to throw his ashes into Loch. Idid so. And I prayed that some of them would drift ashore, and that he would become of his beloved island.
I shall never forget or the time we spent together wishing for nothing more than companionship. He left the island and everything on it to me, but I am selling it. By leaving the island my grief may be eased.
Sir Reginald who died recently was 63. He was for three years Commissioner of Wei-Hai-Wei, and in 1931 returned to Britain to become Professor of Chinese at London University.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.