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I said, “Yes, I have.”

“Well,” he said, “I don't know what it is that he wants to see you about. He didn't tell me, but you've got as much brains as I have. Figure it out. Can you get here?”

I said, “I suppose so. It means getting to New York tonight somehow so that I can take one of the night trains out of New York, but I can manage it. Or I could pick up an early morning train at Newark or Trenton. I've got a car here, thank goodness, and although my chauffeur's tired, I'll make it.”

At any rate, we figured it out. I had a bite of early supper, or heavy tea. They gave me a meat tea, as the English call it - bread, butter, tea, chicken sandwiches, and a bite of whatever else was available. I changed my shoes and washed my face. I said good-bye and started off again. I let my chauffeur have a bath and get a bite to eat.

That was my vacation. I was going to get a week off. My daughter was visiting at this house. I was going to stay a day with them and then my daughter and I were going to the White Mountains, where she was going to visit. I figured it out. Harold Otis studied the maps as to how we could drive back fastest. I remember driving through Saratoga in the middle of the night, it seemed to me. I don't know where I picked up a train, but we got started from Cooperstown





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