Egan just returned from a business trip to Washington, where he saw James Alphonsus McMaster's daughter. McMaster he fears is dying and everything falls on Egan. He has weighed Father Walsh's last letter and it has not altered Egan's wishes to be with Hudson. If McMaster dies, he will remain to wind up the New York Freeman's Journal :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.