Evelyn's Inheritance

FICTION

Elviva (FE-G-1) FPE

Evelyn, or "Evie" as he was known to all his closest friends, sat alone in his room at the Univer- sity, pondering over the letter he had just received from Uncle John. He had just finished his final exams and had been looking forward to the yachting holiday he had been invited to by Jim Allison, his closest friend and a fellow-student who had been following the same course as he had himself been taking.

He had come there at the age of eighteen and in the four years since then he had been very happy and had made many friends. He was popular with everyone, being generally accepted as "a good sport". Apart from being an excellent companion, he shone on the tennis court and in the swimming pool and, in the winter, on the skating rink. He was going to miss being with all these friends he had made, and hence was looking forward in particular to this fortnight on Jim's boat with a number of the other chaps and girls. And now this letter had come.

Uncle John had said he must come home at once, as a critical situation had arisen, which they could overcome only by working together. To say he was puzzled was to put it mildly, but, although he was terribly disappointed at missing the yachting trip, he never once considered not complying with his uncle's wish. He was indeed very attached to his uncle, with whom he had lived since losing his parents in a motor- ing accident some twelve years before. He had never wanted for anything in these intervening years, and he had come to feel a close affinity towards Uncle John, a mixture of admiration and filial affection.

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