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It had failed to stand the test. Writing to Twichell he concluded,with his customary optimism over any new benefit: Ten years he Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I everoccupied, he wrote when the summer was about over. CCLXXIISTORMFIELD ADVENTURESClemens had fully decided, by this time, to live the year round in theretirement at Stormfield, and the house at 21 Fifth Avenue was beingdismantled.

e in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place; meanwhile abolished and obliterated it. That the book was not quite done, even after the triumphant entry ofApril 13th, is shown by another note which followed something more than amonth later: May 18, 1897. Merle Johnson, to whom acknowledgments are due for importantitems. It is not altogether clear why it waswithheld, even then.