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April 21st
1917
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ON BOARD HOUSE BOAT
NEPENTHE
Miami, Florida

I have often thought of you and of the forebodings of your last letter about Hunter's health - and from Emily's saying in her last letter that he is suffering a good deal and that you hardly leave him at all. I fear that whatever you are dreading is coming near. I am so sorry for both of you. Please remember us to him.

I am so glad you let Emily   

that I am on has been working a fishing expedition of her trial trip, and is to be handed over to the government at once. We have been warned off from the neighborhood of viaducts for fear we are Germans laying mines - and in a certain place had to have a couple of soldiers on board to see that we were really fishing for tarpon. By the way I am extremely proud of having landed one weighing 140 pounds & 6 ft 10 inches, long not to speak of the first that I hooked & lost.
We get back to Miami tonight, threading our way through a labyrinth of islands