Lesson 35. Section 1. The unfortunate story of the lost money.
When I was living in North Africa, and I had a cook, and I'd been there for several years, you see.

And I was just coming on leave to England, you see, and obviously it was quite a long leave, you know, I was coming for three months, I think it was.

So I had to, I had a house and I had to sort of close the house up, obviously and erm, this chap who worked for me, who was a sort of cook, erm, he was obviously going to go off, you know, for three months, there wasn't any point in him staying there, so it was, I was getting everything ready, anyway.

And I had a lot of things to fix up, so I'd got rather a lot of cash out of the bank. You know, I had a lot of bills to pay (Yes) and things to do.

And erm, I had about 65 pounds, I think it was. And one particular evening, I was just sort of, you know, clearing up the sitting-room and going to go to bed, I put the 65 quid under the papers in the top left-hand drawer of my desk and then I went out of the door on to the veranda and locked the door.

And the point was, all the rooms of the house sort of opened to a veranda, on to a courtyard, if you see what mean. There weren't passages inside the house. And, erm, then I went to bed.

So the next morning I got up, and erm, after I'd had my breakfast, I was going out into the town to do various things for which I needed the money, you see(Yes) and erm, I went to the drawer to get it, and it wasn't there.