Let me see; Dan, feel in that shooting-coat of mine on the nail behind you and you'll find the book I started to tell you about.Thanks.You see it's a little banged up because I've carried it around with me a good deal--fishing-trips and so on; but it's acquired tone since I began handling it--the green in that leather has darkened.

'Society and Solitude.' There's the irony of fate for you .-- Where had I got to?
When I went in to say good-bye we had quite a talk.

I thought maybe there was some message I could carry to her friends for her, but she was game and wouldn't hear to it.

She wanted the little girl baptized, but said she hadn't decided what to name her; asked me if I could baptize a baby without having a real name.

She was terribly cut up and cried about it.