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she can and should leave the hospital; there is clear evidence of trouble developing with the Misses Snyder and Thrasher. I want Mother to come home at the proper time but Willie must have a chance to get built up again before she does. I must think of Willie - if she goes down I would be in a fix. 

Got home about 5PM and the Colonel and I polished off what was left of a bottle of grand Dad in [[underlined]]two stiff highballs [[/underlined]], about 2 1/2 oz. apiece. I was in a fog from then until I got on the train. The [[underlined]] diner wasn't ready [[/underlined]] for business as usual at Erie, Eddie, the head waiter, explaining that the [[underlined]]floods [[/underlined]] had upset his schedule and his [[underlined]]chef wouldn't get on until Cory. [[/underlined]]. So I sat famished and reeling for an hour or more until we got to Cory - [[underlined]] then had dinner [[/underlined]] with a young [[underlined]] Capt. Vines [[/underlined]] from [[underlined]] Huntsville Arsenal [[/underlined]], with whom I had a lot in common - in fact he knows Capt. Bardonner in Schenectady and Capt. Leggin in Washington, as well as C.P. Vest in Shreve's office, and had talked with Bardonner about locomotives and Bardonner had referred to me. Capt. Vines had been at Struthers-Wells in Warren and got on at Cory -- and informed me we were [[underlined]] en route to Buffalo[[/underlined]]! Sure enough, a [[underlined]] half dozen bridges are out [[/underlined]] and we are going [[underlined]] via Buffalo [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Elmira [[/underlined]] (on the [[underlined]] Lackawanna [[/underlined]] ) to [[underlined]] Harrisburg [[/underlined]] and will be hours late. It took about [[underlined]] five hours to get [[/underlined]] to [[underlined]] Buffalo via Corry [[/underlined]] We talked locomotives WPB and army life at great length and the Captain was a [[underlined]] good listener [[/underlined]] as well as a good talker - one [[underlined]] reason I liked him so well. [[/underlined]]

"Whitey" told me today he could get me a [[double line in margin, vertically, along this  and the following three lines, as if to highlight the lines]] commission as lieutenant - colonel if I wanted it. I declined. But I'd take a commission before I'd go on WPB's payroll. I think even Willie would be resigned to the Army if I were a Lt. Col.

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