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did too. Jos has been elected to the Skull & Keys
and I believe they run him next week. He is
tickled to death. We are all well at home
but Mrs. Sargent got letters from Helen in which
she said she had arrived at Manila with the
"flu" and was taken from the ship to the hospital
where she stayed for two weeks. She says
that Nor looked about the same as when she
left him, but that he had been very ill twice
last year, 1st with Amoebic Dysintery, and last
November with "flu" and a touch of pneumonia.

You know he wrote us that he had gone to
the hospital to take preventative treatment for
dysintery so as not to alarm us, but he really
had it. I dont think he should be kept out
in the tropics any longer. They are going to
spend millions in San Diego for a Marine Base
and I would like to see him sent there or to
Mare Island. We are not to let Nor know that
we know he had been so ill. I hear that
Joe Durney is going East and also to Europe on
business, also that Raymond is expected home
shortly! Of course you have heard that Marguerete
has a son. I have not seen either her or the baby.
Taft arrived this morning. He is on a lecture
tour favoring the League of Nations. There is
no news that I know of, so au revoir mon
cher fils

tou pére devouée
HLA Bates

Old Marcellin the gardiner was at our place
yesterday and told Mother that he cried with joy
when he read of your having received the C de G.