YOU will see that at last I decided to move over to this hotel. I made
a great mistake in not coming before and getting away from the cross
old housekeeper at the International, who could not be induced by
entreaties, fees, or threats, to get the creepy, crawly things out of
my room. How I wish that every one of them would march over to her
some fine night and keep her awake as they have kept me. It made me so
unhappy to leave Mrs. Hull there with a sick child, but she would not
come with me, although she must know it would be better for her and
the boy to be here, where everything is kept so clean and attractive.
There are six wives of officers in the house, among them the wife of
General Bourke, who is in command of the regiment. She invited me to
sit at her table, and I find it very pleasant there. She is a bride
and almost a stranger to us.
The weather has been playing all sorts of pranks upon us lately, and
we hardly know whether we are in the far North or far South. For two
weeks it was very warm, positively hot in this gulch, but yesterday we
received a cooling off in the form of a brisk snowstorm that lasted
nearly two hours.
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