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Gloucester, Mass.
Aug. 9, '08.

Dear Nancy:

I have just been writing your father & pleading for Berlin but I don't expect the result of my pleadings to be the one desired. I still don't know when I am to sail. Bébé & I looked up the Oct. sailings of the U.G.L. & found one good boat leaving on Oct. 6th but when I wrote & inquired I found that the plans hadn't as yet reached the point of 

2)
 
settling dates.
 
The information regarding the exact expenditure of every penny paid, for my board, was given when I was forced to give unreliability as one of my reasons for no longer wishing to live with the Cowles. When I used that word I had had no [[strikethrough]] idea [[strikethrough]] thought of money matters - they brought that up themselves & made the statement which the disclosure of the accounts, [[strikethrough]] about three [[strikethrough]] two days later, proved to have been absolutely false. I had meant lying & later said so. But when I said Edith eavesdropped that worked like dynamite.

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