This may have been the time that Dad returned to the States. Pearl was left behind with, now, two little ones to care for, The next ship would not be there for thirty days. Can you imagine the desperate lonliness she must have felt? Isolated on the top of a hill, the only people nearby were servants who spoke very little if any, English. There was Chinese, Chaxnorro, Spanish and ìPigeon Englishî. Nevertheless, she prepared the family for the long and arduous trip back to the unfriendly inó laws she had acquired.

I believe that this ship was the ìSolaceî. A hospital ship. The Pacific Ocean is not always ìpacificî and on this occasion the ship was met with head on winds. I can imagine the ship pushing her way into a northwest gale. Fetching all the way from the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea the wave action and the winds must have been forbidding, even to a survivor of fierce cyclones of the Western Plains. She now had two little ones to care for. It was particularly terrifying when hot soup was spilled by a waiter and it was thought that the steam was smoke from a fire on the ship. However, she did observe and enjoy the grace and balance of the waiters who successfully balanced their trays as the ship rolled under them until the tray almost hit the deck. Pearl had a tendency to be sea sick for the first three days at sea. After that she had no problems with ìmal de marî. But, twenty some days of this kind of punishment might have defeated a person of less sturdy stock. She survived this and then continued this trip across the continent to, the Nationís Capital.

The sojourn in the East was only remarkable by the birth of little Alice. Alice lived until she was only five years old. She died of spinai menengitis. Again, Dad left to return to Guam. Pearl remained behind to bring the children and the baggage of household living. Again she packed and prepared for a trip half way around the world.

On the train somewhere West of Chicago, Pearl had her brood in the dining car having dinner. At another table there was a family with two children, a boy and a girl. Travel can be boring. The boy and girl at the other table were throwing food and yelling at each other. Conducting themselves like little Indians. Later on, another person in the dining car at the time took the time and the trouble to tell Pearl what lovely and well behaved children she had. This, to a young woman jerked out of a rural life in the middle of the country, and spent most of her married life in transit, or living in an alien land, must have been a drink of cold water in a desert land.

She continued her sojourn and continued in her household activities in the house on the hill.