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have sorrowed with you,
in your great grief -
though you may have
felt, if you had time
to think of us, at all,
that we ought to have
expressed our condolence
in telegrams or letters,
When the terrible mo-
ment came to you.
I know you will

understand all, when you learn
that at the time, that our noble,
grand-hearted and great friend,
the dear Senator, passed away, Colonel
Grant and I, with our children, were
in a little old town of Belgium -
called "Bruges" where no news of the
outside world ever reaches. After re-