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with the blocks on the pedals and the reconstructed driver's seat. Gray's Store was famous for its ice-cream, frozen from domestic cream and seasonal fruits according to a recipe said to have been left by a French nobleman who crossed out: was said to have travelled through Maine sometime in the nineteenth century. Well stocked with cones and paper dishes of Gray's incomparable peach ice-cream, we made ourselves comfortable in one of the two cars, with parts of manuscripts spread out between us.

  A number of such meetings took place before

Katharine was willing to give me a ^few chapters of that curious and beautiful book ^part of which came out crossed out: in installments in the Atlantic Monthly under the title of "The Little Locksmith" ; to take home to read. "Don't even open it now," she said. "I want you to read it but not now because I'm so terribly afraid you might not like it and I would see that in your eyes and that would weaken me. Take it home and go over it by yourself."

I took a crossed out: tenderer different, less fanciful view of