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Austin explained and expatiated, apologized and meandered, and explained it all over again. But no—nothing on earth shall move me from my standing-point. I know nothing, absolutely nothing of the matter, and I shall not know, not for all the Austins and Campbells and Green Street gossips in creation.

“Yours ever, in dismay, dearest Helen,
“A. L.”