CCLXVIIVIEWS AND ADDRESSES [As I am beginning this chapter, April 16, 1912, the news comes of the loss, on her first CXCVIIFINISHING THE BOOK OF TRAVELOne reading the Equator book to-day, and knowing the circumstances underwhich it was written According to your report, the politicians are afraid to tax the people for the support of so humane and necessary a thing as a hospital. On one of these slips is written: There is much more that I could do if I was a well man.
My audience is dumb; it has no voice in print, and so I cannot know whether I have won its approval or only got its censure. There was nothing further to be done; only to wait and dread until theChristmas present's arrival. There were likely to be irritations in his morning's mail, and more oftenhe did not wish to see it until it had been pretty carefully sifted. Finally, itfell about a hundred feet, and we went on.
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