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in drawing room "A" (please notice, the most expensive part of the train) which Hattie from the apparent disregard for finances, felt highly extravagant but awfully comfortable in the Southern heat. Sam said he had started sweating, (not perspiring), as soon as he had left Cincinnati. Arriving in Cincinnati the next morning the family was so tired and dirty that they took a room at the Sinton Hotel, put all their clothes in the Servidor (Servitor), let little Buck  float the new boat Sam had brought for him in the tub along with himself preliminary to sleep. By two o'clock that afternoon/when little Buck and Hattie were awake and business in Cincinnati having been consummated by Sam, lunch was had together and they sojourned out to the Cincinnati Zoo. That evening dinner was eaten up on the open pavilion where the orchestra played "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" which from then on was Sam's favorite melody. The next morning a bus was take to Troy with a tedious stop-over at Dayton. Sam said he hadn't told Clayt where he was going but upon receiving telegrams from Clayt in Winston Salem he didn't suppose Clayt would be very surprised at seeing them all. As the bus neared Troy Sam grew restless and had Hattie all prepared to appreciate surprises in many directions, particularly two girls that worked in a little office across the driveway from the factory. Evidently Sam had 'kidded' these girls with pictures of Hattie and Buck, saying they were his wife and baby "down South for the winter. Ahem: "There was some doubt in the girls' minds. Troy being a small place a stranger is quickly spotted much less a saucily-chiffonly (chiffony)-clad stranger with a small boy in a once-more-clean sailor suit with the long pants. These same girls denied Sam the visible reaction of his grand march down the driveway into the factory with his supposed-to-be old family. Later, as suspected, the pulled-down shades proved conceal much of the same two curious girls, who had desired to give the impression that work was over for the day. 
Due to the stop-over in Cincinnati Hattie's trunk, the old familiar "Treasure Chest", has arrived a day ahead. Therefore, the doubt was not so unexpected. Clayt was working with his back toward the door and Herb Junkin was nearby. Sam and Clayt found much business to have to immediately discuss and Hattie and little Buck had time to