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Wed Oct 9th.
No news yet fr Wynnewood. E and I are beginning to feel as if it would not happen.
Mrs. A came over fo a short visit in morning..not ve[[?]] satisfactory and I feel wor ied... Got to work and did right arm and sleeve. ot feeling well.
Halls having tea and music for Sinks and Mrs Coxe E there and I expecting Davisons and Harrisons at 4.30. They came cloudy and cold. Were in st & Miss Sink and Coxe came as they were leaving. Not bad Made a good shape of it. nd after they were gone M [[strikethrough]] r [[/strikethrough]] iss S called up to ask E and me to dine ther. No I wasn't fit but E went after din. Dear letter fr SI. I long to write to him. So anxos tht I called u p Mrs A and she told me A was where she did not like Bass Rocks. But this does not wor y me much. 
Was awake at three and saw light in upper window.
Thurs Oct 10th.
The NEWS has come. Little S [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] ophie.. All well. Good tel fr H. but I cannot help being dis that it is not little Harry. That would have ben too much.. What a father's heart is hers. Poor Mater not there In Texas. I called up Mrs A to tell her. She said he was out and in a moment came over bringin a note fr herself. At the gate. Terrble.. she cryin He has lost J.H. and she says she never saw him more depressed.. She had sent him in there to see Mrs Cox Sinks off for the day. I was completely knocked down.
Didn't see how I could paint but go on some how.
She sent in another note modifying a little.
I must be confident and cheerful and say nothing When I see him. I had to call up and he ans. I asked if Jack was coming. Then followed an long gangle about cigarettes. So out of my mood and horrid.. but he asked E and me to go to the pet place this af[[?]]
Atvhtree we went off in his car. Marvellous. Quarelling at first. but o how he loved the place. Divine hour. i that beauty. He wept over it. and I managed not to see. Then back to R.R. where we went in Sat long in the rock loge looking at wonder harbor Oranges and then Parsifal on the Orch. He walking bac[[?]]