As soon as he was strong enough he tried to escape , but was caught and brought back ; a month later he and a comrade made another attempt and succeeded in reaching Holland . `` Jem ca n't come home right away . He is n't quite so well as his cable said , for his wound has not healed properly and he has to go into a hospital in England for further treatment . But he says he will be all right eventually , and we know he is safe and will be back home sometime , and oh , the difference it makes in everything ! `` I had a letter from Jim Anderson today , too . He has married an English girl , got his discharge , and is coming right home to Canada with his bride . I do n't know whether to be glad or sorry . It will depend on what kind of a woman she is . I had a second letter also of a somewhat mysterious tenor . It is from a Charlottetown lawyer , asking me to go in to see him at my earliest convenience in regard to a certain matter connected with the estate of the ` late Mrs. Matilda Pitman . ' `` I read a notice of Mrs. Pitman 's death -- from heart failure -- in the Enterprise a few weeks ago . I wonder if this summons has anything to do with Jims . '' 5th October 1918 `` I went into town this morning and had an interview with Mrs. Pitman 's lawyer -- a little thin , wispy man , who spoke of his late client with such a profound respect that it is evident that he as was much under her thumb as Robert and Amelia were . He drew up a new will for her a short time before her death . She was worth thirty thousand dollars , the bulk of which was left to Amelia Chapley . But she left five thousand to me in trust for Jims . The interest is to be used as I see fit for his education , and the principal is to be paid over to him on his twentieth birthday . Certainly Jims was born lucky . I saved him from slow extinction at the hands of Mrs. Conover -- Mary Vance saved him from death by diptheritic croup -- his star saved him when he fell off the train . And he tumbled not only into a clump of bracken , but right into this nice little legacy .
`` Evidently , as Mrs. Matilda Pitman said , and XXXXX I have always believed , he is no common child and he has no common destiny in store for him .
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