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But most assuredly that cannot be. The Ament clipping whichClemens had used had been public property for more than a month--itsauthenticity never denied; but it was immediately denied now, and thecable kept hot with inquiries. He pushed the cigars toward me, and the talk of these mattersran along and blended into others more or less personal. When these began to arrive he had a large number of volumes set aside asthe nucleus of a public library.

To Whitmore, near the end of the summer, he wrote:I've got 16 working-days left yet, and in that time I will add another120,000 words to my book if I have luck. He wrote to him: DEAR MR. But I should not say you look down; you look up at these things. This morning he told me, with great glee, the dream he hadhad just before wakening.