CEHBates_JanFeb1919_043b

when I got home I found in the box
a letter from my mother – & she had
had a letter from "Bill George"
and his mother – Bill was going
to Salt Lake that night to be mustered
out & expected to be back soon
but he said he felt he must come
& see Mother first – He expressed
"great admiration for you & your
bravery" – said you "have a charmed
life" & that he had had inumerable
escapes himself – but that yours
were even more so!" – and that
you had been sent with a