MY DEAR MISS GRANGER:

I dread to answer your note, since it must be a refusal of your

request, for the little painting is the property of a friend of mine,

who has left it, together with a few others, in my care during her

tour in Europe. The fact that she has a morbid dislike to having

duplicate copies made of her pictures, forces me to deny a request

that, were the painting in question mine, I would gladly grant.

Sincerely your friend,

HELEN WINTERBLOSSOM.

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