CHAPTER XI.

DECLINE IN OUR WELL-BEING.

Richard's first bad attack of gout--His leave of absence--We return to Trieste--Streams of visitors--Richard's second attack of gout--Gordon's death--Colonel Primrose's death--Leave to England--"Arabian Nights"--London again--Richard's programme for Egypt--He asks for Tangier--Parts with my father--Goes to Marocco--What the world said--He waits for me at Tangier.