Washington Journal., 1943-03-26

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padding vigorously, now diving overheard
for a cooling dip, whenever we grew too hot.
AT last we reached the shore, near the cove
where we had borrowed the skitf. Fearing
her owner might be after us, to call us to
account for his lost oar, we lodged through
underbrush and back yards, keeping well out
of sight until we came on a side lane leading
to our cousins house.
Our stomach told us that breakfast time
was long past. Indeed the church bells of
Salem were ringing for Sunday service.
Screening our bare skin behind bushes and
chicken coops, we could see some gray clad
folk in Quaker hats and poke bonnets vending
their pious way to the Meeting House. We
hoped Cousins Hannah and Rebecca might
be among them, but, alas, we found them
anxiously waiting for us, one at the front
door, the other on the back porch.
A Sunday Surprise
It took us some time to muster up the
hardihood to come out Of shelter in our sun
burnt nackedness. Need | add that our
spinster cousins stood aghast? If they were
amused secretly, they did not let us know it.
| have forgotten whether our cousins went
to meeting without us. Anyhow we were sent
to bed in disgrace and were kept there all
afternoon and evening, while our cousins
busted themselves with borrowing wearable
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relatives.
Meanwhile our sunburns became more pain
full. By night the discomfort was such that
we could not sleep and lay writing on our
bed sheets. Through a thin board wall we
could listen to our cousins talking about us.
One of them said we were worldly. The
other said we were downright bad. Both
blamed Europe for our wickedness. They
said that Lloyd had caught his in frivolous
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had been to school; mine had been learned
in naughty Munich and Vienna. Among other
remarks about us we overheard that our
cousins had t~elegraphed to HaverfOrd that we
were not to linger longer in Salem, but would
return by a morning train to Haverford
that Monday.
In the morning Lloyd and l, with puffed-up
red faces and hands, could scarcely get our
swollen feet into the ill-fitting shoes and
stockings that had been borrowed for us.
1t was torment to slide into our extra shirts
and borrowed jackets. AS for clamping caps
or straw hats on our swollen scalps that was
unbearable. Indeed we could scarcely hold
ourselves upright. All we wanted for break
fast was plenty Of cold water. When we
we're taken to the train and entered the hot
car we shrank back from it's red velvet seats
as from a bed Of ~nettles. The last we heard
from our cousins was an admonition to send
back our borrowed clothes by early express.
Nothing was said of coming to Salem again.
Down with Fever
We reached Haverford in a pitiable state.
We could scarcely move for pain. At the
station Lloyd was met by the family coach
man Augustus, who whisked him off in a
dog cart behind a spanking %trotter to Dolo-
bran. In agony | dragged myself over the
short stretch from the station to the house
Of Lloyd's uncle William, with whom / was
staying.
His wife, Cousin Dora, took one look at
me and sent me to bed. Cousin Will came
and put cold congresses on my back. Then
he sent for DR.. Gerhard, the family doctor
who had just been called in for Cousin Lloyd
at Dolobran. DR.. Gerhard prescribed ice
packs, healing oil and cooling drinks. He said
Lloyd was in a high fever with an alarming
temperature. I, too, had a fever, but my
temperature was not so high. Still | should
have to be watched. He would come every
day, after treating Lloyd at Dolobran.
| lay in bed a week or longer, until much Of
my outer Skim had been peeled off me in
strips and patches. Meanwhile, so | was told,
Lloyd nearly died in delirious fever.
Keeping a Vow
Lloyd was high strung. He flung himself
hard into whatever he did, be it sports or
his studies. Before he went to college, enter
ing it as a freshman when he got his first
long trousers, his father made him promise
to shun strong drinks. If Lloyd would keep
his promise until he reached manhood, his
father undertook to give him a thousand
dollars on his 21st birthday.
AT the University of Pennsylvania, where
Lloyd studied at the same time that / studied
at Harvard College, it must have been as
hard to keep such a promise as it was for
US at Harvard; yet / heard that Lloyd kept