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On Malta, amidst the dynamic social, cultural, business and religious culture of the modern republic, remnants of the Knights��� former presence are everywhere. I stood on one battlement, gazing at what I imagined to be the graffiti of ancient knights and thought that, one day, here, the Knights should return. The small stones, which I collected during these Malta visits, were joined by similar souvenirs from other adventures. In subsequent years, I engaged in the business of growing up, finishing high school, university studies, and work. As the Bible so poignantly tells us, there is a season for everything, a time and a place. In July 1986, twenty-two years after those first visits, just after my mother, Patricia, died, I organized a cruise to Malta for my father, family members, and friends. On our way to San Remo, just over the border from Italy in France, where we met ���Fair Lady,��� a 1920s classic yacht, which would take us south through the mid-Mediterranean to Malta, we stopped in London. In a room fittingly decorated with portraits of members of the Dilettanti, an eighteenth-century club dedicated to travel, art, and science, I had a conversation, which would propel me towards realizing my youthful Malta goal. Just at the end of a long, thoroughly engaging chat with the then Duke of St. Alban, who sat next to me at dinner, he turned and said, ���My cousin is married to Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. I���ll give you her number. HYLAND