So, of course, that was it. He absolutely went through the roof at this. And erm, you know gave me sort of tremendous tirade.

Anyway, I 'd quite made up my mind, although I'd taken so long to tell him. And I said, well, sorry, you know, that's it.

Then, in fact erm, a friend dropped in, erm, who, who was a great friend. He, he lived there, he was a local person. And erm, Osman came in and he sort of start getting involved in the conversation.

Anyway, I wasn't going to change my attitude over it. Then Idris got terribly upset and was all sot of sad about it and upset about it and started to cry, said I was ruining his life, etcetera. But Anyway, I was completely sort of hard-hearted about it and didn't do anything about it and that was it.

And he went, I mean I paid him, you know, quite a bit of money in lieu of notice but I mean, he still felt extremely upset, and it was one of those, erm, very kind of unpleasant things, which left one feeling rather upset about it and not knowing, I never know whether I've done quite the right thing or not.

Well, I worked there for a couple years more and when I was finally leaving after two years, I was throwing out lots and lots of things like magazines, books and so on.

And this chap, Osman, who'd actually been there the afternoon Idris had finally left amidst all these row, I have him some old magazines, including actually, er, an old Encounter and erm, he came back a few days later and he said, You know, I didn't know whether to actually come and tell you or not, But I was looking through that copy of Encounter you gave me, and I found 65 pounds in the back of the magazine.

Terribly difficult because I was leaving the country, never to come back, you know, in about 24 hours after that, feeling that one had done something wrong which one couldn't put right. And I didn't have any idea what had happened to Idris, in fact. Pretty unfortunate.