Thank you so much for your long wire. So _thoughtful_ of you, but, my dear, I'm not a bit shy, and I've not forgotten you. In fact, I have tried to dream about you quite often. Please try to believe this. We are to have the Vali's old house, whatever that means. The Destroyer is a dear old thing, and, of course, I leave all the arrangements to her. She sends a message. "Give the dear things my love, and tell them to pray that the weather will be good and the Black Sea smooth." Well, I must away to pack. Such appalling weather here, and we have no potatoes. But no one cares the tiniest bit, as the news is dreadfully good. The one drawback is that the war will be over before we have finished the wonderful time we shall all have in Kastamuni. Bye-bye, dear Mr. Smoke. Yours with love, EVE. * * * * * (2) Advertisement of Kuttites Klearout Kompany, Unlimited. KASTAMUNI KUTTITES KLEAROUT KOMPANY, UNLIMITED OBJECT, To defray the expenses of constructing, furnishing, and equipping The "HOMEWARD BOUND" Airship. PROPOSED CAPITAL, £2000 (Turkish). Consisting of 1000 Fully-Paid Preference and 1000 Ordinary Shares. TERMS, Preference Fully Paid, Ordinary Five per cent, on allotment. Balance after the War. CONDITIONS, The investment in twenty shares will carry the privilege of one seat in the "Homeward Bound," to leave Kastamuni at some date unknown. N.B.--In the event of having to jettison ballast from the airship, Preference Shareholders will not be rated as ballast until Ordinary Shareholders have been thrown overboard. ADVANTAGES, On the back of every coupon will be found a policy of insurance with the Credit Ottoman Insurance Company covering risks against (1) Recapture, (2) Collision, (3) Fire, (4) Cherif Bey, (5) Drowning, (6) Falling Overboard, (7) Landing in Enemy Country. Last date of Application for Shares, May 10th, 1917. Original Allottees: (Katronides) The Rt. Hon. Marquis-de-Quinine; (Cloulourides) Vicomte-de-Moular and five Field Officers. Bankers: Kastamuni Providential Banking Co., Ltd. Secretary: A. Fludd, 47.8.9 _Smoke_ Offices. [Illustration: KASTAMUNI KUTTITES KLEAROUT KOMPANY (AN ESCAPE ADVERTISEMENT FROM "SMOKE")] * * * * * (3) SATIRE'S MY WEAPON, BUT I'M TOO DISCREET TO RUN AMOK AND TILT AT ALL I MEET THE WINGS OF A DOVE (Leading Article) Had I the wings of a dove, far, far would I fly--away from this dove-cot--from the Mekhteb and memories of Huznu--from the Turkish bath fond joy of earlier days, away from the chapel that has so often seen me, but now to see me no more, from the bazaar where in days of yore I visited Ekki Bachouk's, from the postas and Turkish female delights untasted--from the band--ah, band of memories--most of all from the Oblong Table--in short, from the Flesh and the Devil far, far would I fly.