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Pawhuska, Ok.
Dec. 13, 1912

My dear M,
No letter this morning and I expected one. Hope there will be one in this afternoon's mail. Have just rec'd. letter from Mr. Hodge authorizing me to come in upon the completion of my immediate field work  Now it seems as though I may be disappointed as to the time I want to come. Wa-xri-zhi [[insert]] is [[/insert]] here but he is quite sick with acute dyspepsia. I sent a doctor to him yesterday and I hope he has given him relief. I wanted really to get from him the Ni-Ki-e degree as that is considered the most important of any of the seven degrees. I hope he will be well enough to give it to me in time for me to get ready to leave by the 18" or 20th. 

There is another thing. The Supt. and the secret service man are begging me not to leave until they are fairly out of the woods in this big fight against graft. They are dependent upon me and the Indians are too, and I don't quite like to leave them when victory is so near.