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At one o'clock on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, young Merrick solved the riddle to which he had devoted much of his spare time for nearly two months.
After only a week's sporadic work on it, he had written to Nancy Ashford: "When the light breaks on this it will not come like a valley dawn. The book is going to be pitch dark up to a certain moment, and after that it will be clear and bright as a June morning. There's no half-way business about a job like this. Either you can read it all, with ease and understanding; or you can't read a syllable!"