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After supper that night Bennington found himself unaccountably alone in

caulch Arthur had wandered off

down the gulch The wo else to do, he got out the manuscript of Aliris: A

Roinning

To his surprise he found it very poor Its language was felicitous in

some spots, but stilted in ed in by the ears; the action was idiotic; and the proportions

were padded until they no longer existed as proportions He was

astounded He began to see that he had misconceived the whole treatain, with the love story

as the rulingthe love story

He drew soan to write

You see he was already developing Every time a writer is made to

appreciate that his work is poor he has taken a step in advance of it

Although he did not know that was the reason of it, Bennington

perceived the deficiencies of Aliris, because he had proh her eyes

The youngthe heroine with violet

eyes A sudden slaht hihed, and was about to sit down again, but noticed