FL14424768

[MS 539]

you know I should not think
of getting anything beyond
my usual supper for you
but I am bound to make
some difference when [indecipherable]
[indecipherable] in the case. I do not
think I shall be from home
when you arrive for I have
not heard from John Norton
since he wrote to say he
would be here on the 8 inst.
I am at present speculating

as to his whereabouts and con-
dition whether dead or alive
or lost in attempting a short
cut. When he does come he will
require a few days rest so that
we shall not have set out
under any cirumstances.
I am sorry I did not see
Geo: [George] Allman, but I think it
was hardly fair in him to blame
me for not going to Yass when
he was at Bungonia and did
not give [indecipherable] Lack