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and read it to us -- It was hard
to believe you were so far away
amid such thrilling events --

Your mother just returned
from Riverside this morning
where they went to see Leslie
off -- He goes east for more train-
ing --

I thought she looked very
well, and did not seem as
down cast as I expected she
would be --

We were in at the Watermans'
and all said how queer that
Leslie and you were the only