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They put him into a carriage, drove him far and wide, and showed thehills and resorts and rendezvous of Tom Sawyer and his marauding band. A varied assemblage of vehiclesfestooned with flowers had gathered to offer a gallant country welcome. Mark Twain, nearing seventy, felt that there was not much left for him tocelebrate; and when Colonel Harvey proposed a birthday gathering CLVIIMINOR MATTERS OF A GREAT YEARThe Grant episode, so important in all its phases, naturally overshadowedother events of 1885.

We know them lost to us--Forever lost; we cannot have them back;We miss them as we miss the dead,We mourn them as we mourn the dead. Then came a final letter, in which Jones said that he hadcanvassed the situation thoroughly with such men as e that party, for any cause whatever, withoutbeing a shameful traitor, a deserter, a legitimately dishonored man. You have no business here, he said, very mad.