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August 15th.

Left office with Mr. Pearson, Mr. Marshall and $2,202.15.
Mr. Bailey came down to depot with good wishes and a good
luck pin and at high noon I bade my friends good-bye and
started on my tour over the world. I also bade good-bye
to the Raleigh of my twenties for when I see it again I
shall be 30 years old. At the station I weighed 128 pounds.
With Mr. & Mrs. Will Royall on train.

August 16th.

Awoke in Jersey City at 7:00 and after taking ferry to New
York went to Cook's office at 9:00 a.m. and went over my
proposed tour with Mr. Hellfeld. A very nice man, but gave
me a suggestion of his first syllable when he told me that
he feared that he would not be able to get me a berth on
the Pacific Mail "Korea", sailing from San Francisco, Au-
gust 30th, although I wrote them last week to engage passage.
It seems my letter was delayed. Went back at 3:00 but still
no word from the steamship company. Five p.m., ditto. If I
can't get on the Pacific Mail, however, I'll go to Yellow-
stone Park and see something of Montana and Washington (and
possibly Canada) sailing on the Japanese line from Seattle,
September 6th. This will largely compensate for any disap-
pointment in getting on the finer Pacific Mail, so there is
still--as Mark Tapley would say-- "no credit in being jolly."
Went tonight to see Marie Dressler in "Tilda's Nightmare",
a rattling good comedy with fine ballet.