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"Was it? Hoere you sure it was I?"

"In Carlow County!"

"He ht have written it hihter than cuneiform

inscriptions"

"Miss Briscoe----"

"She doesn't read Lewis Carroll; and it was not her hand What made you

write it on Fisbee's manuscript?"

"He ith us this afternoon, and I teased hi 'Business and the Cradle, the Altar, and the Tomb,' isn't it? And

he said it had always troubled hiood So do I

He asked ht like better, to

put in place of it, and I wrote, 'The ti I could think of that was as appropriate and as fetching as

your headlines He was perfectly dear about it He was so serious; he said

he feared it wouldn't be acceptable I didn't notice that the paper he

handed me to write on was part of his notes, nor did he, I think

Afterward, he put it back in his pocket It wasn't a e"

"I'm not so sure he did not notice He is very wise Do you know, somehow,