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abandon it. 1 sent it parcel post hy Cook. It tM an a ^ fl11 lot » *•* 
at the American Consulate they told me that was the cheapest way. I 
guess yeu will hare to pay duty on it, hut I hope you will net hare 
te waste time on it. You will wish you had sent me to Ballyhaek 
instead of tfe Europe 1 1 guess it takes one trip to Europe to 1m 
what net to do. There are heautiful linens in the windows here, hut 
they do net twapt me. The chief thins 1 haTe learned' in Europe so 
far is that en® does not learn froa experience — that is it is not 
safe to apply to a second case what was learned in a first case. 
My trunk — it did net come Monday morning. I ipiess they told me 
that tale of its heing at Brenner and its arriral in the morning 
to get rid of me. Monday afternoon I took the case t© Cook. Tues- 
day ..night Cook telephoned mo at the hotel that the trunk is af 
Euf stein, the German-Austrian frontier, that I was to send the 
key and some hundreds marks. At Cooks this morning I asked when 
th© trunk would reach me. In a week or ten days! So I am going 
hack for it. My second-class ticket is $18 in American meaty 
and I shall hare to spend Thursday and Friday trarelinj: (costly 
experience ) . X leare at midnight tonight. 1 finished at the he* 
"barium today. There was no working cut of regular hours here. I 
had te o^uit at IE and when I returned at ^ ( opening hour} the door 
v;ould ho locked for 10 or 15 minutes mere till the attendant arriT- 
td. —I am so glad the Buchtien plants hare arrired. Hersog at 
-funioh said he had heard that we had hought th© Buchtien Herharium. 
bought a Chicago Trihun© here, the first American 'paper 
I hare seen. On the front page was "Eight Heroes hurned at the 
stake in Tessas." 1 wonder what Europe thinks of us. They are re- 
porting the Genoa conference with the same old hunk as they did 1a 
the Paris "peace" conference. I tried to read a trench paper on 
th® conference, hut it sounded like the T r ihune, only more so. 
