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By Eleanor Early.

CHAPTER XL

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Lasus choice of The-Book-of the-Mo-Bazaar on November 8, and apgr.“Landesball Shradh, London, 10, 3. "I'm sorry," sho

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peared with two others at the patiently, "that I cannot make you It was written. the critics, ald, Central Magistracy to-day, a There is a story about the understand. I'm being absolutely with exquisite sensitiveness and

three charged with being concerned LUSSAN younger Dumas, and how he shut sincere, Mr. Hall. I don't want to poignant beauty. There was in the affair. himself up in a garrett, and wrote do popular stuff. I'm tired of great deal of confecting, Was A book in no time at all. Victor manufacturing for the trade. I've it, they demanded. In the nature of KISHA

Hugo is said to have done some had enough of catering to the mar an autobiography? aning of the same sort. And thereket. I've put my heart and soul |

At the insistence of her publish- LTD. is a leasor novelist who took a vow into something real. And I don't ers, Molly received reporters. And neither to shave nor to bathe until care whether anyone likes it or then, being thorughly human and

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The chances are, however, that not. I had to write it."

woman, she played up to them.

together with a fourth, not yetch can be cashed through the Parser of any in paint of time-Molly beat them

The orchid bedroom had become apprehended, entered the house in and of B. LDN. Steamer or at any Al. She scarcely slept unt!! "Ashes

hav sitting-room, formally beauti-the early morning armed with at Desire was completed,

She wanted to tell him not. to ful. Relieved of all austereness, tapering Instrumenta and scissors, a reporter, bother. That she did not care if with flowers and books, and gay, hold the occupants of the building Ouce. when she was the interviewed Miss Amy Lowell, he never found her a publisher blossomed chinn. The floor was at bay; and stole jewellery valued

Miss Lowell did all That the only thing that mattered waxed green, and seemed to shim-at nearly $200. (42 poetess. her work at night, writing in bed, was that the book was written, and mer at the windows were green propped up by 16 feather pillows the truth told. But she knew he has curtains, and the walls

When they left they were chased by the tenante, one man being She drew the curtains against the would think she was telling lies, were hung with yellow brocade. S sunlight, and tacked black cloths she should talk to him like that.

over the mirrors. Because the cres- Because it is doubtful if anyogy with Rowing sleeves and a train,

Molly wore a Nile-green tea gown caught. tive fire, she said burned

more ever wrote anything with the idea when she talked for her public. She Tbrightly, ut night-time, or under that wobody would read it.

set in candle light, and poured artificial, light.

She hung up the receiver slowly,

ten fram an old orange-assom 'Try it, my dear," she advised. wondering why she had written Paanch service. When reporters "And never forget that genius is the book, if it were true that one came, the butler drew a ten-table nine-tenths work. You've got to did not care whether it was pub- before the fireplace, and laid it with Q

sweat for success."

lished. The half-remembered itnes

a lack chuth. Then Molly trailing Mally had remembered. Like Miss of a furtive poem rauitantalizingly clouds of Chiffon glory, received Lowell she turned night into day, through her mind. She thought like a lady in a novel. Uworking While others slept. She that if she could recollect them,

One day Red came, and found her plugget her telephone bell and they would explain why she had pouring ha: orange-blossom tea, told Mary she was at home to no felt the necessity of writing sonie.

and passing caviar, sandwiches, ince. thing which no one might read.

Hours later the lines came to She wore water lilies at her belt, her. They were from Kipling's trailing their long stems down the litely.

softnes of her yellow skirt. And L'Envai

But Red, being an observing. she looked, he thought, like thei

young man, was, not deceived by Lily Maid, in Idylls of the King.

When the other had gone (there der casual manner. Any girl, he were two literary dowagers and a deeded, could regain her compo But each for the joy of work-society reporter), Molly changedure, after spending 30 full seconds ing, and each, in his separate her chiffon gown for a skirt of on a shoe string. There wasn't star.

ad and a scarlet blouse. anything the matter with the shoe And her feather slippers for a paining anyhow. It was tied, in the

Seginning. of stubby oxfords.

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She grew pale and thin. And her eyes took on a peculiar green light and looked huge and a trile wild. She drank quarts of black coffee, and cared nothing for substantial fend.

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Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!!

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"We'll go for a walk," she said, "and buy some hot dogs some where. If you knew how, sick to denth I am of being rare and deli-

cate!"

But Red laughed at her protesta- tion..

"You love it," he told her. You're eating it up."

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"It's amusing," she admitted. "I know." "It's a relief, being respectable," she declared "Mother's coming to he anticipated that Mr. Hall found visit me, I've been good. I don't

It was with less difficulty than

Yes. That was it. "And only the Muster shall praise us, and only the master shall blame.".. da is a wow."

"But that is different," she ex- It was not with covetousness for plained. Ashes of Desire will the praise of critics that Molly had never be popular. don't want it written. Nor in fear of the con- She had to be. I want just to speak aim-ure of little minds. ply, truly to the few who will unwritten the Thing na she saw it. derstand. I never want again what for the God of Things as they the world means when it says suc-Are.

Red stared at her, uncompre "What?" he asked relegantly, "What in blazes is eating you?"

"I mean it," she insisted. "I an trying now to be true to the real things."

"You look like the devil," he in-

When Molly's book" made its terrupted scowling at her paleness.uppenratze it was demurely bound "My work is dane," she told him in white kid and orchid vellum. gently, "in grief and pain. Yet I Before the title page, and, at the beginning of each chapter, was a must write, or die."

He shrugged contemptuously. "You're getting arty," eased. "Success has gone to your head. You're going temperamental.: Snap out it old thing."

he ac-

"Please leave me," she besought.

He went away angrily, because he thought she was posing. But worried, also. because she was thin and white. And, since he could do nothing about it, that made him giler still. Molly watched him from her window, drawing the shade aside cautiously. He did not look back, but stepped into his old car, slamming the door furiously, and driving away in a datter of llicking fenders' and lose bump-

A week later the manuscript was finished. "Molly wrapped it senti- mentally in lavender tissue, and tie it with lavender' ribbons. Then she carried it herself to her agent."

"I look at it to-nigil." the man promised. and call you first thing There' be no in the morning. trouble finding a publisher.

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But he did not wait until morn- ing. At 10 o'clock he telephoned. "I've read Ashes, of Desire, Mles Burnham" (hesantly and a hit apologetically).

"You?"

"You

she prompted. don't care for it, Mr. Hall?"

"It's so unlike anything you've done!" he protested.

"It's the best thing Pre-don." "But your public doesn't expect this sort of novel from you. They want you to give them crime, Miss Burnham.

Molly sighed wearily,

"I know. Well, I'm thrown with what my public wants, "I've riven them a book out of my heart.

If they don't like it. I don't care. I shall never write another any- how."

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Mr. Hall cleared his throat. "It's beautifully done," assured her. "But you know your self what your market Is, Misa Burnham. "You've always cater ed to-er-shull we aay-"-

"I don't care what you say," she interrupte: "Lowbrows. Morons It doesn't make any differ- enco. But Arhes of Desire' isn't for them." It is for the very few -the few who will understand."

"But you must accede to popu- lar demand" he argued,

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