And he was . He was as excited as a schoolboy over it . At last his cherished dream was to be realized and his life-book given to the world . `` We 'll collaborate , '' said Robert . `` You will give the soul and I the body . Oh , we 'll write a famous book between us , Uncle Jesse . And we 'll get right to work . '' Uncle Jesse was a happy man that summer . He looked upon the little back room we gave up to Robert for a study as a sacred shrine . Robert talked everything over with Uncle Jesse but would not let him see the manuscript . `` You must wait till it is published , '' he said . `` Then you 'll get it all at once in its best shape . '' Robert delved into the treasures of the life-book and used them freely . He dreamed and brooded over lost Margaret until she became a vivid reality to him and lived in his pages . As the book progressed it took possession of him and he worked at it with feverish eagerness . He let me read the manuscript and criticize it ; and the concluding chapter of the book , which the critics later on were pleased to call idyllic , was modelled after my suggestions , so that I felt as if I had a share in it too . It was autumn when the book was finished . Robert went back to town , but Mother and I decided to stay at Golden Gate all winter . We loved the spot and , besides , I wished to remain for Uncle Jesse 's sake . He was failing all the time , and after Robert went and the excitement of the book-making was past , he failed still more rapidly .
His tramping expeditions were over and he seldom went out XXXXX his boat .
after at between in into of on that till with