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in private audience next Friday after the [Selesnteat?].
This will necessitate your remaining over until the steamer next week to Athens. Allow me to hope you will do so for my sake. Such motivations are always received in this country as orders; and if you leave the city before the audience, you leave me without excuse and in a light place. Besides, you should remain and talk railroad to the Sultan, a subject in which you will find him greatly interested and a quick student.
Truly Yours
[Lew?] Wallace