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the theory of the injury to the head while surfing, but then there is that incident of the one visiting card in the pocket of the coat of the clothes left in the shed (as if the owner was anxious to be identified) & finally there is that second suit! I give it up! What do you make of it?

Eileen & Peter went off to Leura today, & have left us disconsolate. We are going to Manly for a short while tomorrow, as Mother insists on my going surfing, & to tell you the truth I am not sorry to take her away from this empty house, & get her off the cares of housekeeping for a while. I am kept busy in the office during the day, but it is often lonely for dear Mother when she is alone here, & even the bustle of a hotel will be some distraction for her. I shall of course be able to go to town every day if I am wanted there. 

The O'Gorman Hugheses went off to Medlow for a fortnight yesterday, & I think Bessie Norris & her baby & one of the Jackada girls have gone to Bowral.

I have just been reading over again your No. 8 letter, & my last carbon copy to you. We were quite right about that cablegram to Mrs Vidal. The cable man when he got the message for Barnsley from me thought "Gloucestershire" quite unnecessary, so he cut it out. Consequently the cablegram went to Barnsley in Yorkshire, from which it was returned with the message that nobody of the name of Vidal was known

 

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