gets used to it when one has
traveled a good deal. Uncle Henry says Aunt Julia
won't travel unless she has a stateroom, but he
doesn't object to the sections. I looked into the
stateroom in this car, but it didn't look very
different from the sections, except that it was
larger and there was a place to wash.

"We had lunch at a little table in the dining-car.
It was delicious but my head ached a little, and I
wasn't very hungry. Uncle Henry talked politics
with a gentleman who sat at the same table with
us, but they didn't say much to me, so I looked
out of the window, and it was all very
interesting. We are in Mexico now, and to-morrow
we shall be in Kansas. Kansas makes me think of
Undine and Mrs. Hicks. Oh, how I do wonder if
Undine will ever remember!

"Uncle Henry says we shall be in Albuquerque in a
few minutes, so I must stop writing if I want to
post my letter there. Good-night, Mother darling;
I will write again to-morrow, and indeed, indeed,
I will try to remember all the things you said to
me last night, and to be always

"Your own loving
"MARJORIE."

"October 28th.

"DARLING AUNT JESSIE:

"I have been a whole night on the train, and when
I think of how far away from home we are, I can't
help being just a little frightened, though it is
all very interesting. I posted Mother's letter at
Albuquerque, where the train stopped half an hour.
Uncle Henry and I got out and walked up and down
the platform, and, oh, it was good to get a breath
of fresh air! I really didn't know that any place
could be quite so stuffy as this train. Everybody
seems afraid to have the windows open on account
of the cinders, but I think I should prefer even
cinders to stuffiness. There were some Indians
selling blankets and baskets, and a good many
people bought things. They crowded round us, and
made a good deal of fuss, and I heard one lady say
she was afraid of them. Just think of being afraid
of poor