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or Hell? and it immediately brought a flood of lettersto its author from grateful readers on both sides of the ocean. CCXCVIPOSTSCRIPTEvery life is a drama--a play in all its particulars; comedy, farce,tragedy--all the elements are there. Naturally, the failure of Mark Twain's publishing firm made a publicstir, and it showed how many and sincere were his friends, how ready theywere with sympathy and help of a more material kind. It was there that the first link was forged of the chain that was ultimately to lead to the emptying of me into the literary guild.

He was like a storm-beatenship that had drifted at last into a serene South Sea haven. --[The paper next morning bore the head-lines: 10,000 Stampeded at the Mark Twain Meeting. are entitled to far moreconsideration, and are always read with the deepest interest by high andlow, rich and poor, from its worst; When all life's balls are scattered wide, With not a shot in sight, to left or righ