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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 8
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is not feeling well and to relieve you in so far as possible of the worry you undergo. You'll have to apply the coon hand to her to keep her from washing all the fancy things of the World and his family at one attempt, or doing any similarly exhausting thing again. I certainly hope her cold will have disappeared long before this. Now lissun to me, dearie. The war is not going to last any seven years and we're not going to stay any seven years. The Yap who told you that is either a tool for German propaganda or a plain damn fool. I'll tell you something that you mustn't repeat but which ought to comfort you. The C-in-C told the correspondents the other day that he did not expect the war to end this year, though it was not impossible that it might, but that if everything went well we should finished the job next year. As for the settling of things afterward, it will not take long, and no doubt the officers who do it will be regulars. I can see no reason why I should be kept here many days after peace is declared unless on account of the shortage of transportation. And leave it to me to find a way to get one of the first boats sailing for home - unless they send my wife over to me.
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is not feeling well and to relieve you in so far as possible of the worry you undergo. You'll have to apply the coon hand to her to keep her from washing all the fancy things of the World and his family at one attempt, or doing any similarly exhausting thing again. I certainly hope her cold will have disappeared long before this. Now lissun to me, dearie. The war is not going to last any seven years and we're not going to stay any seven years. The Yap who told you that is either a tool for German propaganda or a plain damn fool. I'll tell you something that you mustn't repeat but which ought to comfort you. The C-in-C told the correspondents the other day that he did not expect the war to end this year, though it was not impossible that it might, but that if everything went well we should finished the job next year. As for the settling of things afterward, it will not take long, and no doubt the officers who do it will be regulars. I can see no reason why I should be kept here many days after peace is declared unless on account of the shortage of transportation. And leave it to me to find a way to get one of the first boats sailing for home - unless they send my wife over to me.
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