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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 947, 30 May 1868, Page 3

I only wish, my dear Milson, that I could follow your advice, leave tho service, and go home at once. But, as you will see before you finish this letter, I cannot do so until I have scraped together a few move of those rupees which we all despise so much whilst wo are young, but find so^ absolutely necessary when we get older. Aud this leads me at once to the pith of my talo, which for many years I have wished to tell you, but somehow, when the moment came, never dared to speak of until now I am obliged to do so. Yon have often joked me about having a skeleton iii my closet, and I have as often denied tho imputation ; but I did not speak the truth. I have a skeleton in my closet, and, what is more, I am about to send it homo ore long to~ be placed inyour keeping, whilst I remain out here to work - some years longer for what will make it independent -' when lam gone. My large pay aud allowances , out hero, and the very economical way I live (for I di&n't ' : spend more than the junior second lieutenant ittthe -. regiment), has enabled me to insure my life very heavily, so that if I die before I leave the service, my heir will bo able to claim ten thousand pounds. •_ In the meantime, I am rolling up my savings in the::best and safest investments, and,, as soon as I can"j;write myself down as worth that amount in hafdiy". cash, I will consider my labour for others at an end -?*