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oft certain imam playwright with whom I had. collaborated and how I always had. 9. secret ohnokle to myself because he d3.d'nt knew I imew hp 116. taken his aloe: or: under the table‘. I suppose he had. oornl, God bless him:

I thought or the days, when a raw igxorant girl I had. £12-at come to New York and Ellery Sedgwiek had taken the that or my stories; of the kind things ,

the lovely thing that William Dean Howls and about me when my rirat book we:

_ published, and ixflllxit over and over again aw mind would come back to --

Jean webeterl She Ind heonmy mono {or most or those years in new York -

aad. such a an-iendt I thoudtt or Joan's delicate. lovely, radiant perao unit: an: the effect 11: had upon my whole lire. I thought of funny ezrpertenoen we had. had together; of irresletibie stories she would tell in her

intmitable way; or beautiful things she had done. ‘me convicts she

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lnd befriended. 02 the III with the grip In his hand Imam she left waiting awhile for her with the light injunction to "Help yourself -— but met

or our silver is phase" I or the zeaxian rune: who in ma evening olpthea lookog eggine use when a caller cam and shpok land: with him on he entered, they“we:1Nt-—tack to the kitchen am throwing up his hands oz-led; "$11080 Americans! They shake hands with the butler!” Of the day when i rode up and dove tm subway holding a copy 0: Jean"e.iebeter'a "mach Ado about Peter" conspicuously before me. my nose buried in it. and au:i1b:L§ chuckling. much to the interest and azmaunent at teller passengerl. I was a Subway "Ad " that day tor Jean's book, and she responded by dropping wrapper: or my ‘book in various prominent places on the In.

All these things came flooding back to law mind in the days in which

I ma slut in in tint vast Alberta storm. I was a womn with a p8s15—M.1'. such a past! It was orotdod, hzstling with moving, running, flying figural.

mg n ow I was alone. was an «no in Siberia.