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5 she does not pity half as much as she loves you. Did you get the Stone Mason about Christmas Mrs Merrill says there is
another John Muir (I don't believe a word of it thought) that made me consider the possibility that it had fallen into other
hands. I had not your address when I addres- sed the package. Mr Butler was in here one day, and carried off your letter,
and without my knowl- edge or consent copied and published what you said of the Calypso in a letter of his own to the Boston
Recorder. There is no law against such an illegible outrageous abuse of the illegible of friendship. Except the law of one's
own mind - but his punishment shall be that he never lays finger on letter of mine again. The bewitching name - Calypso, 'the
concealed''was his temptation - he 00395