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There is no mention in any of these letters of his trouble; but he washaving occasional spasms of pain, though in that soft climat wn hand, and during the last week by the handof one of his enlisted secretaries--some member of the Allen familyusually Helen. Jean isat the summer home in the Berkshire Hills crippled. But his art is not only that of the maker of the scarce article--mirth.

Before seventy we are merely respected, at best, and we have to behaveall the time, or we lose that asset; The gradual widening and deepening of theriver is the whole secret of the matter. Clam here sick--never well since June 5. I have never seen a more impressive sightthan that snow-white figure in that dim-lit, crowded room.