Therefore, Hattie, I intend to take her." And then she asked Grandfather again when Father was going to speak.
I'm so excited! Only think of seeing my father up on a big platform with a lot of big men, and hearing him speak! And he'll be the very smartest and handsomest one there, too.

You see if he isn't! * * * * * _Two weeks and one day later_.
Oh, I've got a lot to write this time--I mean, a lot has happened.
Still, I don't know as it's going to take so very long to tell it.
Besides, I'm almost too excited to write, anyway.

But I'm going to do the best I can to tell it, just as it happened.
Father's here--right here in Boston.

I don't know when he came.

But the first day of the meeting was day before yesterday, and he was here then.