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Dear Strickland:
These few hasty lines in answer to your question, which, if I'd had my wits about me, I should not have waited for you to ask. No apology do I make, however, as you know as well as I do that my wits are not wool but rose gathering.
I inquired of Moncourt before starting off again whether he had heard anything lately from youn