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"Why didn't you answer your 'phone?" sed his shoulders and pointed to the wall, where

the disconnected receiver was hanging down "Necessary precaution

against creditors," he explained "I aated Lescott "You see"

"No" The stout"I shall

never write another story I'm played out" He turned, and restively

paced the worn carpet, pausing at thefor a despondent glance

across the roofs and chie of intimacy, filled his pipe from the writer's tobacco jar

"I want your help I want you toin a fashion He needs you"

The stout o, he had been

peddling his manuscripts with the heart-sickness of unsuccessful e To-day,and De

Maupassant One of his antipathies was ht to

lionize him Lescott read the expression, and, before his host had time