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consider their advice sufficient excuse to order up "another" and wish that all of our good friends in heat stricken America could join us here in our siestas, take a plunge with us from the rocks of Capri or a spin across the bay in one of the little lanteen rigged craft which you must remember to have seen from the windows of this hotel.
   I must not forget to tell you that Tom is becoming a great collector - you know he has long possessed the mania for gathering in fine lines of drinks; well, between drinks now he gathers other things, but without his consent, and he is not with me today, I cannot give you further information. I do, however, feel at liberty to say that he spends