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wrote to Mary.

Wednesday June 25" 1890. We were up early and had our breakfast a little after 6 as it promised to be a very hot day. I went down town and from there to Kingston. Called up at the Cross' and saw Mr & Mrs. Cross and Miss McAtee. After talking with them half an hour and just as I was about to leave I discovered they had not had their breakfast. I went to see Kenyon and now I think I have the Van-Gaasbeck matter in train.

Thursday 26" I went to see Mr. Lindsley about the output of the water pipe. He advised not less than 4 ft. We had got 3 ft with difficulty done and into rock. He is to send me two men tomorrow to blast and there is a new expense I can ill afford. Tom is still at work digging the trench and it seems an endless job. Girard came over and told me the water pipe had burst and it was running under his house. Later the superintendent of the water works came to see about it and said the pipe had not burst and there the matter stands with the water still running under Girards house and the water in our pipe dirty and oily. The girl who was to have come today did not appear and we are rather glad she did not. It remains to see if the one will come Sunday who agreed to.

Friday 27. I walked to Kingston and was at Dr Roosas at 8.30 when he put a filling in my wisdom tooth. It was a splendid morning with a rich, clear air and strong N. wind. From Roosas I went to Kenyons. He had prepared a paper to which we must get the signatures of all the heirs of John Van Gaasbeck as well as all the brothers. I called on my way down to see Peter. He told me two lived over near the Devils Lake, one mile below Capt Andersons in Eropus and one was away from home. I simply cant undertake the fatigue of getting all these names. The case is this. The brothers have all sold out to Peter, Abraham H. and John and given deeds, and I will be satisfied with their release. I called to see John's widow but there was no one at home, and so it goes with these people scattered all over the country. When I got home tired and discouraged the men were at work blasting. They had made two blasts but seemed to think they had not done much. I am perplexed and discouraged and am far from well. Each afternoon I feel exhausted and hardly able to stand. Sara is driven with work. Attempting to care for this big house with no servant is simply slavery. As Sara and I were sitting in the hall just before retiring and talking about Major Cornell in connection with the Patchen's we thought we heard footsteps on the road outside and on Saras going to the den she found it was Sam Coykendall and Mary. They had been [[strikethrough]] on their wa [[/strikethrough]] to Georges and came this way evidently to call on us. I said to Sam I heard he was having a disagreeable time which seemed to give him a chance to talk with me about his troubles with Young and Joe Cornell and he talked very freely and not unreasonably. It seems to me he has been very judicious in not talking about his affairs and when I apologized about alluding to them he said they had ceased to be private. I told him I thought public sympathy was almost entirely with him and that certainly he had my friendship and sympathy. Mary feels bitterly the injustice of not having their place left to them and says they will not even sell to them at a reasonable price. According to Sam, Young is very grasping and will be likely to get into trouble. He says he sold a block of stock of the U&D. R.R. for $3. a share for which he offered $20. and he thinks it will eventually turn up in Youngs possession. They talked very freely with us knowing we are their friends and he was not as hard on the Major as I should think he has reason to be. Altogether he seems to me to have the advantage at least of judicious conduct and bearing on his side and I certainly

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