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that do^n ?.as thrilling. We took the rips at top speed.in many cases 
and as -e swerved to miss some rock the waves would dash over the 
on -3 ' J "ren' >v ty — j_th strsv hn^ sometimes more ■* —n 4 hat• No 
and then the propellers -"o Id get. into the trough and race till 
you would expect them to fly off. ^hey did not, however, for Phil 
had gone in shimming and the captain had sent him under the boat 
with a monkey wrench to see that the setscrews were all tight and 
he would come ip piffing like a porpoise. stopped on the way to 
take j.p our sturgeon lines and st salmon River to allow the botan¬ 
ist P to gither some new species which they had discovered last 
su.drier, ^he hundred miles took us somewhat more than 5 hours and 
we tied up at. the bank at Lewiston to find hr3. Schroeder waiting 
for us.. I wish Helen's mother could have se c n her and I ~”&nt to 
kno' fr "h : .t she said when she found out about the trip* as Helen 
and her grandmother had, in a way, eloped. Being in California, 
hhe sad no ci m ■ >f pursuit, evfcn if she had known where they had 
gone. The big trick was waiting for us and the Piled themselves and 
baggage in and started for Pullman, enday morning -e left for 
home, spent that night at ^he bailee and were tack here a little 
after noon, ^he next morning they turted for Seattle. 
I am sending you a letter from my old friend Alex paillie. 
one of the firm of Balfour, Guthrie & Go. he manages the Seattle 
office and T had wanted him to go with is, bit he had to be in 
g. p. taking the place of one of the partners who was in England* 
B. G. & c 0 ., is one of the great firms which have carried the tus- 
x.ess of Great Britain to the four corners of the globe. There are 
11 partners, all Scotch, and they have an office whereever there 
is wheat to be boug t or sold, but they deal in everything. One 
year A. p. bought cascara till the London office howled and told 
him he had enough to keep every ma. , woman and child in the tf • K. 
on the lump for the next 10 years- "Kr w much did you get? I asked. 
