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to legalise the second agreement. I told him I had not thought
of this angle at all but for him to write or telegraph Taylor
for the desired confirmation. Mr. Pickering got in touch with
his representative, the editor of the Toronto Star, and asked him
to see Taylor and have the agreement ratified which he did, and
I began work on the articles. I did not receive my first
payment until the work was underway and in the meantime Stefansson
had sent no money to the company which being short of funds wrote
me a letter on October first, asking me to send them a check to
cover the cost of the telegrams and their stenographic work,as
I had agreed to do which I did as soon as I got my first payment
from the Alliance note letter of oct. 6 also and on October 8th the company having received
the check wrote me a letter of thanks and acknowledgment, also
saying that they had just received a letter from Mr. Stefansson
which gave them,and also me, our first intimation that Mr.
Stefansson was expecting me to give the company the pay I received
from the Alliance and states that a Mr. Griffith Brewer, the
gentleman in England who put up all the money for the relief
expedition was coming over with Stefansson for the purpose of
going into the accounts of the expedition. This was all very
interesting but it was an outrageous presumption on Stefansson's
part, especially in view of what I had done for him and his com-
pany. If Stefansson had got into trouble with Brewer it certainly