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IT was in that mood that he decided to go home. The little house on West Twelfth Street was the abode of misery. So much the better.
He found some letters and a telegram waiting for him. He opened the telegram, certain that it was an urgent invitation to join beloved merrymakers -- an invitation that he declined in advance with much self-pity He read: