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have "grub" and she would pay for it when she got back.

I wish you were on this trip. You could probably get her
to talk of everything. I have discovered that she does not talk to more than
one person at a time with any freedom - more people, even if she knows them
all, seem to confuse her. Where we made a mistake in Seattle is that you did
not try talking to her alone. I am sure she would have given you any information
you sought. She has told me a number of times that all the "boys" were good
to her - and a number of times she has spoken of Maurer as a good rustler and
hunter - "if they were all like him" or they had native hunters they
would have had more grub. These letters to you are the only notes I am
making in detail. I come in as soon as I talk to her and write you the
important or interesting things. People on the boat who know about her -five
or six of them - are kind to her and the little boy is so cunning that people
stop to talk to him. I hope it is not too late for Fannie Hurst to write her
story. Let me know about this. Tomorrow we will be in San Francisco.

San Francisco.

Dear V.S.

Reporters were on the deck. Ada would not be
photographed! Just sent you a wire to the Harvard Club to say that Ada,
Bennett and I were this far on the trip - safely and improving every minute.
Ada finally got over being seasick yesterday and came out on deck in time to
see the mountains and wish she were in Nome - homesick for ice and snow and
wanted to walk miles into the mountains. She told me that the great dipper was
"The caribou" and said her mother always said to her, "Ada look at it a long
time and see if you can't see a caribou, but I never could." She seems more and
more content and today she was very happy. When we went on a drive thru Golden
Gate Park
she sat with her hands clasped in her lap, saying Oh, Oh! - almost

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