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I built a conversation which could havehappened--I used words such as were used at that time--1601. They arrived, and John was awed into silence by the magnificence andsplendors of his surroundings until they went to the bath-room to washoff the dust of travel. Nefret selected an instrument and bent closer. He was inventing aflying-machine, for one thing, writing a Jules Verne story, reading proofon a New York daily, and contemplating the lecture field.

In later years he used to say that hehad always felt it was his mission to teach, to carry the banner of moralreconstruction, and here at forty we find him furnishing evidences ofthis inclination. This in his own paper over his own signature was a body blow; but it hadthe effect of curing his cold. In some ways the job was easier this time, since they had done it before, but additional precautions were necessary for a more prolonged trip-and, Ramses feared, more careless handling. By the middle of August he had written severalhundred pages of a story which was to be a continuation of Tam Sawyer--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.