its makers, accompanied by a letter to say that I wrote 'Trixie' with it. To be sure, I didn't, for that one is lost, but what odds? No one'll know, and the Pirene people will be sure to make a feature of it in their advertisements. The pen that wrote 'Trixie'! Archdeacon Roach, the world famous author, writes: 'I send you herewith the dear old Pirene with which I wrote every word of "Trixie." It costs me rather a pang to part with it, but I feel that you ought, etc., etc.' Something like that. With an enlarged photograph of the pen, or better still of my hand, holding it."
Thus, while he pursued the almost mechanical business of multiplying his and Dunkle's letter, the Archdeacon permitted his thoughts to occupy themselves rosily with the future. During the afternoon he struck out scores of happy ideas for the furtherance and consolidation of
