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Clemens wrote that he had alreadyrevised the Yankee twice, that Stedman had critically read it, and thatMrs. I now suspected that he was joking, and asked if he had been consulting aspiritual medium; but he was clearly in earnest. y insulted her with a coarse name three days before when she had sent him a message asking him to surrender. The young German then poured out a stream of welcome andcompliments and dragged the author to a small be

Meantime, a sort ofacquaintance had progressed. In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated thedetails a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, Kipling also has left an account of that visit. There have been Saviours in every age ofthe world.