prevent the old gentleman from doing it. Look here, if you burn this manuscript after you've copied it, he'll have no evidence, will he?"
"Not a scrap!"
"Very well, then. And look here, Bish, if you can't write novels like 'Trixie,' I'll bet I can. Why not burn this 'Edgar and Lilian' thing and defy the Archdeak to prove he wrote it, and then let me write any more novels that may be wanted? You say the Archdeak is willing to let you have all the royalties on these two books as long as he has the fame of having written them. But will he go on like that? How can we be sure he won't turn greedy? Once he's known as the author of these books, he'll have no use for you any longer. Why should he let you have the royalties on the other books he'll write?) Obviously he won't. But if we burn this manuscript,
