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the above-mentioned feat (and my nose is none too Herculean) you may 'address me letters to the address below.'

"But, consigning all the preceding levity to its own particular hell, I shall hasten to thank you for your unprecedented attention to one in whose manly countenance, figuratively, the editorial hithertoo have been impolitely though no less repeatedly slammed.

"Now (and I confess to a certain premonition), I must close what, to you, I am certain has been an extremely incoherent epistle. I wrote it on the spur of the moment; directly after I read the Eyrie's first paragraph, and during the silent laughter thereby produced. I don't know whether you have ever read—or even heard of—Edgar Franklin's stories in the Argosy All-Story; but, anyhow, I was afforded—by that paragraph—more pleasure than ever I encountered in his stories. And Edgar Franklin slings wicked sarcasm!"

HE following interesting letter from Whitmore Anderson Gaydon of Selma, Alabama, though voting for "The Transparent Ghost," seems less concerned with that unique tale than with certain peculiarities of tales in general:

Dick Presley Tooker, author of