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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
W. BRAUEN.
MANAGER
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS
"ASTOR"
CODES USED A.B.C.
5TH EDITION
WESTERN UNION

Astor House 
Shanghai

Feby. 3rd, 1911.

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Dear Colonel Hecker.
I have just received and read with much interest, your two letters of Jan. 3rd.

The gentle art of Al Stevens amuses me. In a smaller way, he discloses his utter lack of manhood some years ago - to now find him without a spark of honor proves the fallacy of giving a free rope to creatures of his class. Being a coward as well as a [[strikethrough]] well as a [[/strikethrough]] fool, of course, he crawled when Truman called him. He should be 

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