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one to suggest we drive out there.

The day was uneventful.  It rained after breakfast and then the sun came out hot - and I cut the grass and was as hot as I've been all summer it was so humid.  This afternoon after our ride, we played three games of croquet, all close, but Rog and I nosed out Bab and Wil on all of them.  Odd jobs completed my program.

St. L. called up to inquire about the 5/38 job and was none too happy when I told him the story.  He said he had a fine vacation - that I had sold him a "real bill of goods" when I recommended the lake trip - although the weather was none too good, he enjoyed the rest, the food and the companions and all in all he seemed to have enjoyed himself immensely - said I had had "the right idea" on a suitable vacation for him.  All of which relieved my mind because I had felt guilty several times last week when I looked out on the cold, gray, rainy, desolate weather and thought of him out in it on a boat on the Great Lakes.

Somehow I've well nigh forgotten about the fact Shapter is due back from his vacation tomorrow and if Whitey carries out his avowed program, then tomorrow I may well be notified I am the new head of the Industrial Locomotive Section - I haven't thought much about it this week - last Monday I was all keyed up - and I'm not particularly excited.  After it has happened definitely, I'll have to get to work and work hard - but until it does happen, I don't intend to stew about it.  I shan't believe this until it has happened.