But the Beloved never likes to see a sad expression, even if the heart is breaking ... and shortly the clouds blew away and the sun appeared."
Baba and the mandali took Chummy for a walk in Golden Gate Park. Then they saw a film ( The President Vanishes ) at the Paramount Theater on Market Street. After the film, they took the ferry to Oakland and boarded the Cascade train to Portland and Seattle at about 4:00 P.M. They arrived in Vancouver early on the 10th, where they checked into the Yale Hotel . Baba picked up his mail and telegrams, and went around the city.
In the morning the group breakfasted at the Cecil Hotel next door and then took Baba to a dentist as his tooth was bothering him, but it was not extracted.
At 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, 12 January 1935, Baba left for Hawaii and the Orient aboard the steamer Empress of Canada , accompanied by Chanji, Kaka, Jalbhai, Adi Sr. and Chummy. The puppy was at first kept with Adi in his cabin, but later was shifted to the animal quarters. Baba visited him each morning and afternoon. Baba received many telegrams on the ship, full of his lovers' laments of separation. Baba wrote this joint-reply to the group on the 12th:
This is just to say another parting yet loving farewell at the moment when I am leaving the shores of the West, for my work in the East. There is no need now to tell you — all my darlings — how I love you and know how keenly you feel for me, and how the thought of a separation that is to come haunts you and tears your dear loving heart! But, beloveds mine, if you just try to see that this is all for my work and as such vitally essential — and how I feel and suffer for all this for the sake of the work that has to be done — much of your mental burden and hearts dejection will diminish and disappear. And there is always my Love and loving help for you, dearest ones, that will enable you to cheer up in moments of depression and heartaches. That I am and shall be ever with you — mine own — must by now be a matter of conviction and thought of great relief and comfort. And wherever I am — wherever you are, my loving thoughts for you all — my heart — will ever keep you in the warmth and feel of my Love, I need not at all repeat, for I know and am confident you feel it so deeply, every moment, and I also know that there are times when every throb of your heart beats for your beloved Baba.