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with one or two ^'minor' corrections, signed, addressed and mailed. The answer came promptly: "Sorry old chap," it said, "that my comment offended you. ^'I apologize' but negation just isn't enough!"

Chapter Twelve Not many months after the ^"retrospective" showing at the museum, serious preparations began to be made for the execution of the house. After reviewing my financial prospects I went down to Mies office one afternoon and wrote down on the edge of the drawing table before him the sum 40,000 and listed the assets it represented. "Now can we have the house?" I asked, half believing that the question was rhetorical in view of the extreme simplicity of the design. "I should think so," Mies replied. "We haven't made any estimates yet, but it must be a cheap house - it's almost nothing." ^*

In that way, crossed outthatcrossed out on the edge of the thundering Chicago Loop, the Fox River house ceased to be a ^'empty' project and began its period of