THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
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The public, I am determined, shall have its opportunity of judging how I write fiction."
"Oh!" said Dunkle gloomily, "the public will probably like your book very much. It's a novel that any publisher will see his money in. But this is not to say that it is a work which I am precisely bursting to have attributed to me."
"Nevertheless"
"As you say, Archdeacon—nevertheless. If you will pay my price, I will incur this shameful responsibility. But only for the sake of your family. I would not have Mrs. Roach and your daughters (who have been immensely kind to me) made the laughing-stock of London society by reason of your conduct."
The Archdeacon again controlled himself.
"And your price is" he inquired icily.
