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He was just under ten months by now.
George and Marguerite came along with us-but our hearts were too full to talk much. The last I saw was the group still standing immovable before the bungalow. I wonder where you all are now, and if you still are standing there, or if perhaps there has been a way of escape up those same ladders and no one to stop your going? I think of Miss Stops and Miss Ayrton who would not have gone if they could. They want to see it out. They were interested in being on the spot. I wonder if they have changed their minds now. It must have been very tedious through the long summer. We waited at the American bloc all morning and part of the afternoon. Friends came and went. Wheeler came down to give Van Dyke a last carry. Mrs. Armour brought some rice and raisins for the children. Mrs. Richards and Mrs. Penny brought us tea. Others without much material wealth brought us smiles and farewells. There came Tom Mulholland wheeling Donald-please write his wife about them, and that he hoped to meet them sometime in America or Canada. I could take no letters, but after I got out I wrote to forty or fifty close relatives of our friends. There was great excitement when the liner came into sight. She docked a long way off so that we were transferred from a launch to ferry and ferry to liner. We passed the Japanese in charge of the camp in alphabetical order and he checked our names off the list. Good-bye Stanley-I shall never forget the lessons learned from you. Tokyo had evidently assigned our cabins in alphabetical order and there was to be no change under any condition. Our names had been placed at the end of the list as we had not been living in the American bloc. Celene, Van Dyke and I were in the third class with 14 in the cabin. There was no
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