MARCH, 1898.

DEAR McDONALD,--I do not feel pleased at your returning to me

the money and giving me your own copy of the book. I feel mean over

it. But what can one do with a man who deliberately takes off his own

coat to cover his friend during a nine minutes' drive? I shall remember

the _feeling_ of that coat--warmth of friendship must also have been

electrical in it--until I die.

Affectionately and somewhat reproachfully,--in haste,

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