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which Mrs. Coolidge is much interested in. Mr. De Rose said Mrs. Coolidge used to teach there before she married, and he used to know her then. He all but told me he used to go around with her then, was one of Cal's rivals - he didn't say so, but it was what he said and what he seemed to want to say, that made me feel it intuitively. His wife and daughter both went to Smith. And then we were back in the station and about train time. But I thought, what a perfect example of how erroneous first impressions can be!
    The ticket agent in Holyoke told me Mr. Haggerty, the yardmaster, was located down in the tower near the station. It was about 11:30 AM and I debated whether I should go down at once and take Mr. Haggerty to lunch or wait until after lunch. Mr. Haggerty would probably be a crude, tough gent in a mackinaw who'd be embarrassed to be asked to lunch. So I went uptown in the rain to the hotel, a honey, and had lunch alone. When I got back at 1:15 PM, Mr. Haggerty was out at lunch per the old toothless clerk in the tower. So I waited and noted the exceeding neatness of the room. It was crude and old and dark with years of proximity to steam engines but nevertheless neat, not a thing out of place on the big old roll top desk. An old cast-iron stove was going cosily. Finally Mr. Haggerty arrived about 1:45, and I found a short, stocky, neatly dressed, florid gentleman who might have been a business man, doctor or lawyer. And for the next two hours, he imparted to me
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