France

4 11 17

Dear Mac [Gordon Macauley, husband of Liz Balneaves] Just received your letter but cant get the guts of it at all, but by your description of the affair it does seem a bit fishy. What the deuce was the matter with her but of course as I said I don’t … it all you should get right in on that chap from Frisco. Play him a game or two of poker if he has so much brass. Say Mac guess he could get rid of some of it here as the (God Damned Yank says). These Canadians are just the same and talk through the nose and it is always some God Damned thing but could hardly write it all