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Bologna, Malta, for the rest of the War. Mary was doing war work, but not as a volunteer. The army people insisted on paying her, so that she has to keep going from 9 to 5 like everyone else. She sent the congratulations of each & everyone of them to you on being promoted & generally on doing so well.

I haven't found that back sheet of Fr Thornton's letter with his new address in Scotland. He marked his letter H.M.S. St George, Salonika, so I suppose I had better reply to that address. If you have his new address in Scotland, send it to me. He said he was writing to you, as I had given him the Bank address for you.

Evie Keenan has been causing me some slight bother. First of all he went off to Melbourne to see his mother, as I think I told you. When there he telegraphed urgently for money which I refused to send him as I had paid him £10 the day he left Sydney for Melbourne. Then I got several penitent letters saying that he had been a fool, & was ashamed of having asked for more money. Then I got a request to pay some of his debts amounting to £8, six of which he had borrowed from his sister Constance. Then

 

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