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it, but he replied that there was no other place & we had held it under all the Generals for the last four years, & we have heard nothing further from him. I saw Gen. Miles to day & he says hold onto it, the ordnance Dept does not need it. I want to be assured that we can keep it or rather I feel assured by Gen M's statement & I want it repaired. The roof leaks so badly that it is impossible to keep the school in it in a heavy shower & then the next day even the room is so wet that it is unsafe to put scholars or teacher into it. We lost one day last week & another this, & then the next day many will stay away through uncertainty whether there will be a school or not. It seems hard to give up the school, & yet hardly advisable to keep it up