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that he left Washington for two or three days in order to 

 get away from being spoken to about it. This was one 

 of the very few occasions when he went away with com- 

 paratively little business occasion for going. It may be 

 that he attended to a little Fish Commission business, 

 but in company with Mr. Herbert Gill, then one of the 

 clerks of the Fish Commission, he went off into the 

 country in Maryland, away from everything connected 

 with his work, taking the occasion to visit the scenes of 

 his school-boy experiences at the age of ten. His admira- 

 tion for Professor Henry's genius and for the noble work 

 he did was deep and enthusiastic." 



