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to have the ills we have than turn to others that we know not of." I think the people are beginning to understand all that talk.

You said nothing about returning Mrs. P's letter so I have destroyed it. I am sorry. May be it would be better for me to return all letters you send to me then we would be sure.

I have money to go on with the rites but now I have to wait for the men who have promised to recite for me what they know. I think they are brushing up. But while waiting I am writing out some of my notes on the various things. I finished an interesting ghost story yesterday. The Supt. has loaned be a brand new typewriting machine.  I had some trouble with it at first but now I get along with it very nicely. The man who is temporarily in charge is quite an interesting man. His work seems to be largely with the South-west Indians. He allotted a tribe down there and he is much interested in the Navajos. He has an invitation to Mohonk and he says he cannot afford to go but he is very anxious for me to go in his place and tell of my observations of the conditions here. I think that very little is known of them and it seems as though some attention should be given them by the Indian Rights people and also the Indian Office. But the Indian Office has become a mere machine that grinds with no semblance of reason and it is almost hopeless to make any approach