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I have to try to make amends for two mistakes that have occurred in our page lately. The first occurred with regard to a letter sent in by Somebody's Lassie, in which she told me the circumstances of Grand Master's death. That letter, it seems, has gone astray. I read i% appended a footnote to it, and 1 sent it upstairs. When .the Witness came out my footnote appeared •with another letter, but Somebody S Lassie's letter did not appear at all. It seems that it has been lost upstairs .in the printing department. I am very sorry, as it gave such a good picture of Grand l Master's .genial, happy nature. I will still publish the letter if it is found; this is just to explain, its non-appearance. The second omission is this: Last week Cornish's retiring letter appeared, without Anything in the way of footnote from- me. Now, such a- thing has not happened before — that any retiring letter should appear "without a word of good-bye ; and to think that Hhis should have happened to Cornish, «f all people! I knew how it had come about the moment I saw it. A visitor came in just as I finished Cornish's letter, and when the visitor left, I, thinking I had■written the footnote to it, simply went on with the next. Now, thesw few words of explanation just lead up to a few insufficient ■words of praise I desire to accord to one ©f the truest and most loyt,l-hearted D.L.F. in all our Dominion. Cornish has been a pilar of strength to the page, to the Club, and to Dot herself. Everyone *ho has com* in contact with him knows what absolute, trust may be placed in him., Siacs the first day he came to see me, and threatened, from shyness, to slide ander my table (he is not shy now!), Cornish has been for m» all that I think » true D.L.F ought to be. I am -not going to add anything to that last sentence, fox you and he know the worth of it. DOT.