My dear Gabriel: I'm going away / for a day or two to / Crom's Tower. on Friday. / so I cannot be with you / - there is a fate about / Nettleship - I think / I shall return very / soon for the place is so / remote that it may / bore me - but I have been / seedy again & feel / overworked and want / the change. ask me / again in about a week / - I will let you know. when / I get back. / Ever your aff / Ned.