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4 Collett's Book Store, managing to get two copies of "The Disinherited," also Alvah Bessie's "Inquisition in Eden." In retrospect, the illness was already working on Mabel, and she may have forgotten to inquire or order your book, certainly, packing and getting ready for her was always a precision thing, taking a long time for even short trips.

Went to Kent (my 22d trip recently), where I'd inserted an obit, as the Mason family was well-known around that

county, mainly because of her father's ability with ironwork. Saw Mrs. Harris briefly, Mabel's oldest friend - got an object in my left eye, stayed over in Maidstone at a hotel that's easily 400 years old. Went to "The Opthalmic", the local - E-N-T joint. A tiny