herself and offered to pay all the expense.... I will enclose a
check which you can fill out as I have no idea how much it will cost. At
any rate please use it and send Gregg away for a while; it will be a
benefit to him to travel and be away from servants. Let him look after
himself."

She rarely gives advice, but frequently makes friendly suggestions
backed by the material wherewithal necessary to carry them out. "I have
been sorry to know that Gregg has been having so much cold; it came to
me one night that perhaps it would do him good to take a trip down to
Hampton. I remember that Mrs. B---- had a son with General Armstrong at
Hampton, teaching typesetting, and she went down to see him. She told me
of some people who went down there every year to avoid the snows because
they never had catarrhal troubles at Hampton. She said that it was a
fine climate, so I wondered ... if it would not do Gregg good to go down
there and live in the open air of that lovely region for several weeks."

In writing to her son in February, 1907, of the laying of the
corner-stone of Bemis Hall, at Colorado College, she makes no allusion
to the gift that made this building possible, and says only: "I suppose
Gregg wrote you or Sister that I helped lay the corner-stone of the new
hall yesterday morning. Mrs. S., one of the 1908 Class, and myself
patted on the cement. Gregg remarked if Daddy and Alan had been there,
there would have been a lot more put on. The wind was very chilly
yesterday, but we were not there very long and we were fairly well
wrapped."

* * * * *

Mrs. Bemis had an attack of appendicitis while in Boston in the autumn
of 1910, which made an immediate operation necessary. When she was able
to be moved, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor took her to Asheville for the winter,
as she was not strong enough for the longer trip to Colorado; but the
weather there that year was very unfortunate for an invalid, and later
they went to Atlantic City. Here Mr. Bemis joined them; he now was able
to make business arrangements that relieved him of the many details he
had long carried, and a new era in the family life was begun--the
happiest of all.

From that time all enforced separations were over, and he was with his
wife continuously wherever it was best for her to be. When, after a
year, she was able to return to Colorado Springs, she was very happy to
be again in her home, and the old life among friends was resum