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often cruised in company, he taking the items of news he could handle best, and I such as I felt competent to work up. We are-I say it without apology-a wordy lot, and since we are also an intelligent lot, our conversations are worth listening to. To Redpath, who was urging lecture engagements for the coming season, hewrote: DEAR RED,--I am not going to lecture any more forever. He returned to Washington without seeing Miss Langdon again, though hewould seem to have had permission to write--friendly letters.

Are you thinking of the woman in Cairo? Surely it is only a coincidence. That could not be good for his health-or, come to think of it, his marriage. wever, next morning, and the dayafter left on the Pioneer Stage, by the way of Donner Lake, forCalifornia. There is one envelope still in existencewhich bears Clemens's name in elaborate design and a very good silhouettelikeness, the work of some talented artist.