“I am undertaking the survey of a line to open up the hinterlands of
Argentine. If that be successful, I shall hope to superintend the work.
If I do not succeed—well, at any rate I shall have made a beginning, and
my successor may find encouragement in the spirit in which I have led
the way. But I am dreaming ... I wish you to take this box containing
the deeds, and present it to her—if you will do me that last favour.”