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THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
people tell him what a splendid novelist he was.
To account during this period to his household for his renewed absorption in literary toil, he gave out, unblushingly, that he was once more busy upon his "Lactantius."
The moment he had written the last word of "Edgar and Lilian" (as the new book was called), he telephoned to Dunkle that the manuscript was ready for him.
Dunkle was at the Vicarage twenty minutes after replacing his receiver upon its hook.
