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been too free in his long letter, please don't mind. His
intention is good. He does much better by word of
mouth."
Brother had disturbing news ro pass along in
James
confidence. "Yesterday the Superior received a $ummons
frorn the Dujardins. I had to go because he was just
preparing for his trip to England. I understood that
we would have an important discussion on 'Het Wal-
letje.' They seemed decided to make short business of
it but they agreed to wait for the return of the Superior."
Brother Ryken was back in Bruges probably for
August 22nd, the date the Xaverian Official Register
for the arrival of Willy Bradley, a native of Manchester,
England. With the Brother Superior about to cross the
Channel, it seems likely that Willy Bradley, who was
not quite thirteen, traveled with him. No fond morher
would have chanced Willy alone to make all those
changes in London, Dover, and Ostend. It is easier to
picture the Brother Superior dragging Willy by the
hand as they ran to make connections and then acting
real fatherly to the "little Englishman" on whom he
always doted. Willy was nor outdone. In some of his
letters, still preserved in the Xaverian files, he sang
the praises of his Father Superior.
Willy's arrival at "Het Walletje," tagging along at
the heels of the Head Brother, is purely conjectural.
Only one who has not made the trip would insist that
Willy did it all by himself. Conjectural also is all that
happened or did not, happen during this visir ro Eng-
land. There is nothing in the Ryken correspondence
about any meeting between Father Worthy and Brother
Ryken; nothing about his usual journeyings about Eng-
land; nothing about the unusual sights and sounds at
the Crystal Palace in London which opened that May