thousand was sold out in a week. The second edition of eight thousand went off like magic. The third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth followed. Then came the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second. After the twenty-second the twenty-third appeared, and then the twenty-fourth, -fifth, -sixth, -seventh and -eighth.
By this time America had got it and was pouring it out by the ten thousand. They sold a quarter of a million in no time at all.
Dunkle's mail increased a thousand-fold. Everybody wanted to meet him, either in order to secure his attendance at their parties or to touch him for money. All the magazines and newspapers wanted to publish his portrait. The press-agents
