Note 28 — MY NORTHERN EXPOSURE (continued 3)

Excepting, perhaps, the long telegram from my old friend Capt. Peter Fitzurse, explaining that he was unavoidably detained correcting the proof of his forthcoming autobiography. See appendix for further light on Fitzurse's claim that the three fingers missing from his right hand actually were frozen off when he grasped the North Pole. W.E.T.