Chapter II

SALISBURY,
_July_.

A card from Tony Widger:

Dear Sir in reply to your letter I have let to the hotel which is
full for the 28th july until the 6th Aus, but I have one little
room to the back but you did not say about the time it would take
you to walk down also John to Saltmeadow have let so you can have
that room if you can manage or you can see when you come down their
are a lot of People in Seacombe or you write and let me know and I
will see if I can get rooms for you if you tell me about the time
you will be hear from yours Truly Anthony Widger.

Risky; but never mind. There is always the sea. It is something to have the certainty of a bed at the end of a long day's tramp. Besides, I want to see Tony, and George too, if by chance he is at home. And there may be a little fishing. And--

And stepping westward seems to be
A kind of _heavenly_ destiny.

That's the real feeling at the back of my mind. _I want_ to go west, towards the sunset; over Dartmoor, towards Land's End, where the departing ships go down into the sea.