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Show 17 anticipated so much pleasure in listening to that voice that I had heard so often in my dreams. I apologized and said all I could to atone for my egregious mistake. He said very little but gave me to understand that he looked upon it as an intentional slight. His wife's father was there and I saw that he enjoyed hugely the joke they had on Shipp.7 The ending of the spring school quarter afforded Mr. Lund a vacation of several months" duration and Ellis an opportunity to go to Battle Creek and thence to the city for General Conference. Milford, chancing to meet Lydia and Ellis on the street, invited them to bring Flora and come to his home to spend the evening. Ellis records the experience in detail: After conversing a while Flora entertained us with "Smith's March," "Floating on the Wind" and some other beautiful pieces. And Mr. Shipp gave us a "Little More Cider," and "Tom Moore." Afterwards he requested his wife to play and sing, which she did, I thought a little unwillingly. And then to conclude, we all joined in and sang "Home Sweet Home." After we had returned to Sister Robison's where we stopped while in the city, I told Lydia I didn't believe the conjugal relationship existing between our friends was the most happy and...felt a presentiment they would separate before a year.8 Several weeks later, Ellis received a letter from her father requesting that she come home and meet his brother's son. The trip, by team and wagon with her Uncle Asa and cousin Louisa Hawley, took three days. During one night of camping out, Asa's horses disappeared, not to return with him until mid-afternoon of the next day. The girls had a lonely time of it through the long wait. Some time late in May, school resumed. On June 3rd "Little Susan's" little boy died. We are not told whether this was cousin Susan who had been attending missionary dances with Ellis, but what |