However, they were all so nice and so pleased to see people from the outside world that, once in our "bridge stride," it wasn't so hard. Rieloff, who hates cards, after a while went to the piano, bursting into "_Du meiner Seele schönster Traum_"--following it up with the "Moonlight Sonata"; so, in the end, we found ourselves sitting in a dimly-lighted room, with Beethoven floating out on the soft Indian night--and all was well. I am dead with sleep, and early to-morrow we depart. 42 Calle Humboldt, _August 26th, late evening_. We were awakened at 5.30 in a dawn of such exceeding beauty that, as I stepped out into it, I was tempted to fall upon my knees rather than hurry to our little train. On one side were the hills, so veiled in splendors of filmy pearls and blues and pinks that their forms could only be imagined; on the other was an abyss of gold and rose and sapphire into which our train was to plunge. All day long we went from glory to glory; but I got home to find that something human and dreadful had happened in my absence: Little Emma C., playing over the roof with Laurita and Elim, escaped for one unexplained second from Gabrielle--fell from it to the stone _patio_--her fall, for an instant, broken by a balcony railing. I hurried to her mother's. The child is alive, but dreadfully injured, and, it is feared, for life. Nature was too beautiful at Necaxa not to exact some sort of toll from those admitted to it. I am dreadfully upset. [59] Dr. F. S. Pearson, to whose genius this astounding engineering feat is largely due, lost his life on the _Lusitania_. XXVII A luncheon for Gustavo Madero--Celebrating the _Grito_ at the Palace--The President's brother explains his philosophy--Hacienda of San Cristobal--A typical Mexican Sunday dinner _September 3d._ The _funcion_ I gave yesterday went off with a good deal of snap. Everybody in town was there, and the house filled to bursting. Elsie S. and I brewed the classic Grosvenor punch ourselves and arranged masses of flowers everywhere. Probably it will be the last gathering I shall have, _sic transit_, etc. Madame Madero came with her two sisters-in-law. She seems more worn, thinner, and older; a year heavy with anxieties has passed over her since I first saw her in the flush of hope and triumph at the German Legation. The Porfiristas--all the old régime--hold the United States responsible for Madero's success, because of our permitting him to organize and finance himself on our border, and there are others who think, rather paradoxically, that it is due to us that he has not had _more_ success.