THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
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peer. He had a private annual income of some three hundred pounds, and he wrote little poems which he sold to the magazines for anything between five shillings and a guinea a time. He had financed the publication of two collections of these things, one called Bouchées and the other called Chrysoliths. His age was twenty-four.
The Archdeacon loathed him. He thought him—and rightly—decadent, poor, ill-mannered and vapid.
Yet he was forced to admit that no one whom he knew seemed so well fitted as was Dunkle to play Shakespeare to an archidiaconal Bacon.
A poet with two published volumes to his credit—what more natural or proper than that his name should appear on the back of a novel?
Since he had as yet published nothing
