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CHAPTER XXXV
BACK TO THE STATES AND PRIVATE LIFE
SEPTEMBER I, 1901, I sailed from San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, on the U.S. Transport Sheridan for Manila, ac-
companied by my wife and twelve-year-old son, intending
to make the Islands my permanent home.
General Frederick D. Grant, also a passenger, had been
visiting his daughter, Julia, the Princess Cantacuzene, at
her home in Russia. As the General and I were the rank-
ing officers on board, we occupied the two best state-
rooms on the ship, side by side on the upper deck facing
the bow.
Among the passengers were a Mr. A. W. Hastings and
his daughter, Miss Charlotte, very agreeable, charming
people from Minneapolis, both on their way to Manila,
Miss Charlotte to meet and marry her fiance, Judge
Charles A. Willard, of the Supreme Court of the Philip-
pine Islands.
During my two years at Angeles, among the occasional
recreations of the headquarters mess was a modest game
of draw poker in which both General Grant and I often
joined.
Meeting me on deck one evening, he said that he and
one of the officers were going to have a game in his cabin,
and after giving me a cordial invitation to join them
suggested that I bring Mr. Hastings, to whom he had
taken quite a fancy.
I found Mr. Hastings quite willing, so we left our
respective ladies, our itinerary unknown, and slipped
into the General's cabin.
We were in the midst of the game when a sudden excla-
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Hoyt, Henry Franklin. A Frontier Doctor, book, 1929; Boston, Massachusetts. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143532/m1/305/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.