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I would not make any more contracts and that as soon as I returned to Dayton, I would resign.

The night of January 2, we shipped the remains of Hoxey's machine to Dayton and the two other machines to San Francisco.

[[margin]] Insert [[/margin]] After completing these three contracts, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Salt Lake, I returned to Dayton to face the music. On meeting with the boys, the first thing that Wilbur said to me was, "How about this Sunday flying?" In my most plausible manner, I explained what the situation was and that it was necessary.

Wilbur muttered in his beard for awhile and then said, "What are you going to do about it?"

I then pulled out the checks that I had collected and said, "This at least will compensate for part of it." And on seeing the size of the checks, all apparently was forgiven.

I promised for 1911 that I would not make any further contracts to include Sunday flying.