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so the doctors had agreed that he might see us. He sat up in bed, looking very queer and very vague. He had that queer glassy look in his eyes. He looked very, very weak. I remember then thinking what a difference there was in this skin color. He had been out there ten days and hadn't had anything to drink. So his skin color was almost natural, whereas ordinarily it was reddish purple. He usually looked about ready to burst, and here he was all whitened out.

The Senator (being the principally interested person), as soon as the amenities of we were glad he was better, and so forth, were over, began to talk about this bill. “Now we have it all prepared. Since you agreed to this, General, we thought we'd show it to you. We propose to introduce it on Monday. Richberg okayed everything, as you told him he should.”

“I never agreed to anything,” said the General. “I never agreed to anything,” said he, looking off into space. “Frances, you know I never agreed to anything.”

Then I tried to be sweetness and light and to recall to him this meeting at my office. “You recall, don't you, General, that you were so kind as to come to my office and we had this troublesome matter out. You were busy as there were people waiting for you over at the NRA and you had to leave. You appointed Richberg your agent and said that we