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I've done a grist of writing here this summer, but not for publication soon, if ever. When Theodore Stanton invited him to the Decoration Day banquetto be held in Paris, he replied:I thank you very much for your invitation and I would accept if I werefoot-free. This time none of the elements were lacking--not thesmallest detail. DOUBLE-BARREL DETECTIVE STORY (Saranac Lake, The Lair ) Harper'sMagazine, January and February, 1902.

Laffan also proposed to join withMcClure in paying Mark Twain a thousand dollars each for a series of sixEuropean letters. But you read it? Yes, I read every line of it. He opened a letter. d until Clemens hadtwenty-five dollars of Dunne's money, and Dunne was sweating andswearing, and Mark Twain rocking with delight.