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companions. Then too, the green walls in each, and certain great differences in line have proven interesting to students and critics. They are both masterpieces and I am still sorry that my efforts of three years ago to make "The Piano" a next door neighbour of "The Music Room" failed. Still, even this may happen some day.

Today, Sunday, was the last day of the Whistler show and I remained in attendance all day. It closed at six o'clock and when the attendant turned the key in the door he found the last worshipper to leave the shrine were old Drouet (the sculptor whose portrait Whistler etched in '59 and whose friendship still lives) Mrs. Lawson (Whistlers sister in law) Mrs. Studd (owner of the "Little White Girl," "Cremorne Lights" and the "Fire Wheel") and myself. We were a happy