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After discussing for a few minutes the probabilities of such a course on the part of the enemy, I thought McCook should be made acquainted with what was going on, so Sill and I went back to see him at his headquarters, not far from the Griscom House, where we found him sleeping on some straw in the angle of a worm-fence.
DEAR MOTHER: Griscom has awakened to the fact that he is a Press correspondent and is interviewing rebels who come stealthily by night followed by spies of the government and sit in Griscom's room with the son of the Consul General, as interpreter. Somerset and I refuse to be implicated and sit in the plaza waiting for a file of soldiers to carry Griscom off which is our cue for action.
The boat must be just leaving; she started an hour ago and took Laura with her. In fact I'm alone in the house that is, until this evening. Some people are coming then. Warland. But what in the world Isabel. Her aunt, Mrs. Griscom, has had a fit. She has them constantly. They're not serious at least they wouldn't be, if Mrs. Griscom were not so rich and childless.
We came out a little ahead every year but one. That year the president very unexpectedly called an extra session, and for the first time in twenty years I was in debt to our landlord in Washington." Griscom told me that this simple narrative of a statesman of national reputation seemed to make the monumental achievements of his millionaire guests of little account.
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