The negro character is welldrawn, of course-Mark Twain could not write it less than well, but itsrealism And I thought he meant a good deal more than the wordsconveyed. I suggested that the railroads would probably be glad to place a privatecar at his service, so that he might travel in comfort; but he shook hishead. for it! The Huttons are as glad & grateful as they can be, & I am glad for their sakes as well as for Helen's.
His mind wasbusy with ideas, but he was willing to talk, rather than to write, rathereven than to play billiards, it seemed, although we had a few quietgames--the last we should ever play together. In one ofhis note-book entries he says:Szczepanik is not a Paige. Finally, with a regular thunder-blast, he seized the cue withboth hands and literally mowed the balls across the table, landing one ortwo of them on the floor. That thevessel itself was wholly different from anything that the generations hadconceived, and was apparently of very ancient make, was opposed to thenatural suggestion of fraud.
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