The argument that having waited so long one might as well wait a little longer does not touch us.

It was that argument that kept us in Tokio when we knew we were being deceived weekly, and the same man who deceived us there, is in charge here.

It is impossible to believe anything he tells his subordinates to tell us, so, we will be on our way back when you get this.

I am well, and only disappointed.
Had they not broken faith with us about Port Arthur we would by now have seen fighting.

As it is we will have wasted six months.
Love to Dad, and Chas and Nora and you.
DICK.
In writing of his decision to leave the Japanese army, Richard, after his return to the United States, said: "On the receipt of Oku's answer to the Correspondents we left the army.
Other correspondents would have quit then, as most of them did ten days later, but that their work and Kuroki, so far from being fifty miles north toward Mukden, as Okabe said he was, was twenty miles to the east on our right preparing for the, closing-in movement which was just about to begin.