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for granted.

I think what she said about her mother - "not being
able to say and express herself - just sit still and say nothing" - expresses
Ada very well, - She seems to sit still and absorb.
- Last night I brought her on deck to see a masquerade
dance - and when the maskers came mo marching down the
deck she stood - just as close to me as she could
stand, until I explained just what it all meant -
she watched a girl in an Oriental costume - very
thin ([gengettes] and beads) - finally she said -
smiling -" if I have a dress mad like that on Wrangel
Island - I think I freeze to death very quick"

10 P.M.
I have just come up from Ada's cabin and I told her I was
going to write to you - and asked if she had any
message for you - she said, "please tell him I thank him
for trip"

=

I don't know whether you will think any of the things
I write you about her of any value, - still of out of them
you may get something you want - This I know, the
whole feeling toward you is changing, you are quite
real to her now - and a different person than the
man she imagine some time ago. - Perhaps that
is enough and if she stays out here until May -
- and you talk to her yourself - it will go be
the thing -

However I have told her that whenever she wants
to go back to Seattle she can go - and if she
knows that, she can do as she pleases.