Of all the great people of every continent, this was the one we most desired to see." Richard's intimate friends of these days were Charles Dana Gibson, who illustrated a number of my brother's stories, Robert Howard Russell, Albert La Montagne, Helen Benedict, now Mrs.Thomas Hastings, Ethel Barrymore, Maude Adams, E.H.

Sothern, his brother, Sam, and Arthur Brisbane.

None of this little circle was married at the time, its various members were seldom apart, and they extracted an enormous amount of fun out of life.

I had recently settled in New York, and we had rooms at 10 East Twenty-eighth Street, where we lived very comfortably for many years.

Indeed Richard did not leave them until his marriage in the summer of 1899.