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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER XIX
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What worried me the MOST was how worried YOU would be; and I begged Palmer not to send the story of our first arrest.

But other people told of it, and he had to forward it.
You certainly made the wires BURN! and had the army guessing.

One officer said to me, "I'm awfully sorry to see you back.

If you'd only have stayed in jail another day your wife would have had us all on our way to Mexico." And the censor said, "My God! I'm glad you're safe! Your wife has MADE OUR LIVES HELL!" And quite right, too, bless you! None of us knows anything, but it looks to me that NOTHING will induce Wilson to go to war.

But the Mexicans think we ARE at war, and act accordingly.


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