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of house building next door to his Chelsea home shall have ceased. And there, day after tomorrow, I am to say farewell and start for Paris-

The parting, like the friendship which has strangely grown up between us four, will be agreeable to us all, and yet, in a sense pathetic.

Our pilgrimage has been short in distance but long in impressions and strewn with perils. The roadway is still misty but there is no lack of courage, and now that we should choose new paths, he falters not, but like an old-time knight errant, with frank heart, he awaits the leagues before him- I can simply wish him to win and then go-

After one day in Paris, I shall go direct to Rome where I have asked Tom, Freddie and Coleman to meet me for a few hours to attend to some household matters for Freddie and Villa Costello, after which Capri!! At Capri I shall rest for a little while and then whenever Freddie is ready we will return together to Detroit.

The world is a curious shell and I wonder of what is the real kernel?