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r-ship of the line crowded with summer-dressed people waving-the rich browns and greens of the rush-grow Claude, the butler, withhis usual skill in such matters, had decorated the great living-room withgay autumn foliage and flowers, brought in mainly from the woods andfields. I like to talk. But a moment later he glared at me.

This was on the 1st of February, '94, and Clemens that night cabled toParis, so that Mrs. We may be sure the idea of the game would possess him, once it got a fairstart like that. We shall hear of it again. The Herald subscribed one thousand dollars on its own account,and Andrew Carnegie followed with another thousand, but the enterprise