Lord Lanwood had been very fond of his sister even though there had been several years difference in their ages.
He had therefore looked after her son as best he could.
The boy went to Eton where he insisted on studying languages instead of enjoying the game of cricket as his uncle had done.
But he had a wandering spirit that he had inherited from his father and it made him spend every holiday, when he might have been riding his uncle’s horses, climbing up mountains or travelling in what Lord Lanwood considered were low-class ships.
To his delight they took him to different places on the Continent and later to the East Indies.
By the time Charles should have been enjoying the Social life of London, he was invariably in some obscure part of the world accompanied by strange beings who h
