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I kept hoping and hoping that I was going to get well enough to come out. I thought that a visit with you would be a change for us both; but the weather was so bad, and I was so miserable that it seemed foolish to get up out of bed and run the risk of getting more cold. AS it turned out my little vote would have made little difference. Did Doris and Sid get theirs in? I always like to see the protest vote as large as possible when the candidate I wanted to win lose out. Of course, it is different when the shoe is on the other foot. 

There is a large blow fly that came in this P. M. when my window was open. He has twice, while I have been writing this, lighted my typewriter as independent as you please. I have twice whacked him and knocked him off; but he has survived both times. I got up just now to get another paper to try a third time but he got away again. Talk about the cat's having nine lives!

Did you see by the paper about those horrible murders here in Stoneham? If the man hadn't killed himself, I don't know what would have happened to him for doing such a dreadful thing. A little two-year-old girl, a twelve-day-old baby, and his wife! It seems impossible. They were killed in a flat that I looked at last summer before I came here. There people on the second floor - under them - were the people who moved out of that house where we stopped the day you were out here, the one I asked Ralph about because I was considering buying it. The girl of the family who used to take the little girl out for airings is one that Iva's daughter, Lois, has played with in times past. It all seems pretty near. The man must have been insane. He was a cad just the same, because he left notes trying to defame his wife's character.

Mr. Anderson who lives here is going to bring home some butcher's linen that his firm are no longer using. If it is as good a buy as it is cracked up to be, I may buy some of it to make table scarfs, etc. [[strikethrough]] for. [[/strikethrough]] I'll tell you more about it later. He may forget it again as he has been doing for several nights. Then, too, it may not be anything that I care for.

Mrs. Smith has just been in to tell me that she has a chance to buy an Oriental rug for a $100. She hasn't the money herself, and could only pay on it by installments. Her stepdaughter has some money in the bank; but instead of asking her for it, she comes to me, throwing out hints. It seems strange to me. She says the woman wants $50 down. Inasmuch as she is a friend of hers, I don't see why she doesn't carry her isntead of expecting a stranger like myself to take money out of the bank and lose interest on it. I suppose, though, that I shall make some arrangement for her if she really wants it. I could pay her two weeks board in advance. I think that the woman would take that with a promise of weekly payments if it were put up to her rather than put the rug back in storage. The family lost out when the depression struck. They are now living in a little house down on Central street. One of the rugs went to Washington with the oldest whom I used to have in school and who now has an important position in Washington.

Well, I guess I have gabbed enough for one night.

Lots of love,
Lena