Thursday, August 25 Thursday, August 25 THE BITTER TASTE of cold coffee returned him to his unfinished task. I should tell Ash that story. He"d been so absorbed that he hadn"t noticed the time. When Ashley opened the back door, the last plate went into the dishwasher. THE BITTER TASTEI should tell Ash that story.“You still haven"t cleaned up?” “I"ve been thinking,” said Fritz. Instead of an Ashley-typical snide comment, he asked. “What about?” Fritz told him about some of the trips he had taken. He described his visit to Franklin with the president, as well as watching the Alamo fall, meeting Lindbergh in Paris, pretending to be a reporter at the Potsdam conference, witnessing the connection of the railroads in Utah, and meeting FDR at Hyde Park. “It"s been a lot of fun to see those

