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too swift to be quite pleasant. And when you write, remember to tell me about the time your train goes through here, because I wouldn't miss seeing a familiar face for all the world.

And of course I forgot to thank you for coming over on the boat yesterday. It was mighty nice of you, and it certainly did make that separation from the Shoals not quite so sudden and painful. I appreciated it, although I guess I didn't appear to.

We had an uneventful ride down to Boston. Gave an S-T-A-R for the Isles of Shoals in North Station, and everybody gave us the stare, and thought we were unbalanced 

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no doubt. Bill met us at the train. He found that his friend, whom he went down early in the morning to look up, was away over the weekend, and so wandered around Boston all day by his lonesome. He went over to Charlestown Navy Yard, and went completely through the super-dreadnaught "Utah." Also he climbed the two hundred and ninety odd steps of Bunker Hill Monument. When he greeted us on the platform, he was weary but happy, and we all went to a Ginter restaurant where we ate perfect heaps of food. Bill alone had enough for all three of us. We didn't leave the place un-
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