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6 his room and those on the same side but that did not seem to leave much effect on her. While she was in Opr's room the housekeeper came along and gave some orders to her after which she hurried along and got out. Hoge was away from his room much of the forenoon and all of the afternoon until about PM. He had some few callers in the evening most of them appeared to be engineers who were now at work an on the roads. Hoge read a letter to some of them in the evening but Opr could not make out what it was. After reading it he made the [remark that he kept receiving encouraging letters but that was all and that they were unclear, and that the strike should be called off and unclear the were get back as much as they could as they had no unlcear to carry it on any longer, that there was too much kicking over the assessments and that some men would give nothing that he was tired of the whole thing but if they could leave about fifty thousand dollars a month they might carry it along all summer (and to something which Opr could not hear). One of the men replied that unclear would cash a great deal of money therefore could not be done and the best thing