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Herakleion via Canea takes, I believe, some 26 or 27 hours.
Unless I am taking at their face value words spoken for politeness' sake and intended to be discounted as such, it will be quite all right with Mc Fadden for me to join him in Crete even if you can't get away until later. He urged me to come to Crete as soon as I could, and even tried to coax me to go down to Crete with them. With some people I would not put so very much weight on that, but I believe that Mc Fadden meant it.
In case this meets with your approval, as I gather from your letter that it does,
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