I will just about get through my schedule in the ten weeks at this rate.

I had a good time in the bush and am enjoying it very much though it is lonely now and then-- Still, it is very interesting and if the stories amount to anything I will be pleased but I am constantly wondering how on earth Chas stood it as he did.

He is a hero to me for I have some hope of getting back and he had not-- He is a sport-- How I will sleep to night--a real bed and sheets and pajamas, after the ground and the same clothes for eleven days.
of love.
DICK.
While Richard was travelling in the West, his second volume of short stories, "Van Bibber and Others," was published.

The volume was dedicated to my father, who wrote Richard the following letter: PHILADELPHIA, February 15, 1892.
MY DEAR OWN DICK: I have not been the complete letter writer I should have been, as I told you on Saturday, but I know you will understand.

Your two good letters came this evening, one to Mamma and one to Nora.