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into the receiver, after the first greetings
were over.
"I guess so,'' suid Robertson. "I've decided
to settle the matter with a check."
"Anything you say," said Wintringham
meekly. "How much?"
"Leave that to me," said Robertson.
"Meet me at Sharpe & Skinner's promptly
at ten. Not a moment before the hour, and
not a minute later, and whatever happens
don't you open your trap once. This is no
time for vocabularies.''
"I'll make a noise like an oyster," Wintringham
replied, with a feeble attempt at
light-heartedness.
JUST the same, he was a woebegone looking
personage when two hours later at ten
o'clock he entered the offices of Sharpe,
Skinner & Son. It was a relief to him to find
Robertson already on hand, and something
of a surprise as well to note that with him
was Horace Dalrymple, of Dalrvmple
Brothers & Company, his publishers. He
was about to exclaim on this point, when
Joseph Skinner, Jr., who had been dubbed
"Counsel for the Offense" by Robertson, entered
the room in a bustling, important
manner: ereetine them all as cordially, how
ever, as though thev had met at a five o'clock
tea.
"Id is a great pleasure to meet you. Gentlemen,"
he said suavely; and then, with a
quirk and curious glance at Dalrymple, he
added, "and an additional pleasure to welcome
Mr. Dalrymple, though I must confess
it to be a wholly unexpected privilege."
There was so evident a note of inquiry in
this observation that Robertson promptly
answered it.
"I thought it advisable that Mr. Dalrymple,
as one of the interested parties,
should be present," said he
"Ah, indeed?" said Skinner. "I was not
aware of the fact. May I ask in what manner
Mr. Dalrymple becomes a party in interest?"
"Very simply," said Robertson. "Mr.
Dalrymple is the senior partner of the house
>f Dalrymple Brothers & Company, Publishers,
which concern holds a written contract
with my client, Mr. Wintringham, for
the refusal of all his literary productions.
Rv its terms thev have first choice of everv
tiling that he writes?as you will see by the
c-ontract itself. Here it is," he added, prolucing
the document. "You may wish to
look it over. It was made for live years, and
lias about two years left to run."
"I do not doubt it. Mr. Robertson, if you
state it to be so," said Skinner blandly; "but
what is the point in respect to this little matter
this morning?"
"Briefly this," said Robertson; "That the
proposed publication of my client's letters
by any other house, before Messrs. Dalrvmple
Brothers & Company have declined
them, would be a violation of this agreement."
"Doubtless," replied Skinner; "but, save
in so far as this contract gives an additional
value to the writings in our possession, I
don't see how it can possibly affect us. We
ire under no contract with Messrs. Dalrymple,
Mr. Robertson, and if Mr. Wintringham
has permitted these?er?these
harming little fancies of his to come into
our hands before submitting them to his
publishers, that is his lookout?not ours,
ertainlv. 1 should say that the Messrs.
Dalrymple might have a very good cause of
iction against Mr. Wintringham under this
ontraet; but they are not in any sense parties
to any matter with which my client has
iny particular concern. I can assure Mr.
Dalrymple," he added, with a decided
twinkle in his eye, which filled Wintringham
with a passionate desire to rise up then and
there and smite him, "that if we do publish
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niese it-tiers we snail oe oomg nis nisun^uished
house a great commercial service. I
im rather inclined to believe that within
two days of their appearance in the public
prints there will lie a great, though possibly
morbid, demand for the other published
writings of our friend Wintringham. Fact
is, I fancy Mr. Wintringham will receive
without financial cost advertising that
could not be purchased for a half-million
dollars."
Wintringham's heart sank. If this was
the only trump Robertson had up his sleeve,
it had evidently gone into the discard.
"Oh, very well," said Robertson carelessly.
"Then perhaps you will permit Mr.
Dalrvmple to remain as our literarv ex
[u-rt?the idea being that his judgment
is to values may be more nearly correct
than?"
"Are you taking the ground, Mr. Robert
A. NOODLE, ESQ.
Continued 'row. page 8
son," demanded Skinner, eying his adversary
keenly, "that this is a purely literary
proposition?"
"Why, of course, Mr. Skinner," replied
Robertson promptly. "What other ground
can I take? You surely are not asking Mr.
Wintrineham to oav for the suooression of
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these letters, are you? One would hardly
like to believe that so eminent a legal firm as
yours, a firm of worldwide reputation, would
undertake to force?"
"We are not trying to force anybody, or
anything, Mr. Robertson," said Skinner
coldly. "We are giving Mr. Wintringham a
chance to recover?ah?to regain possession
of one of the most diverting of his writings,
that is all. It is immaterial to us whether
he takes them off our hands or not. Now, I
can see the possibility of the Messrs. Dalrymple
endeavoring to restrain their publication
by injunction, and I am not sure
that the courts would not grant one; but
even then the chances are that the letters
would get into the daily newspapers,?coming
unquestionably under the head of things
that are fit to print; for, whatever else may
be said of them on the score of their good
sense, they are in even,- respect strictly
moral?"
"All right again, Mr. Skinner," laughed
Robertson. "I see you are pretty well fortified,
and, knowing your reputation as I do,
I should have been surprised if you weren't.
Suppose we get down to business then?on a
financial basis, so to speak."
"That will be nuite airreeable to me," said
Skinner, with a smile.
X/fR. DALRYMPLE," said Robertson,
A "after going over the typewritten copy
you so kindly sent Mr. Wintringham, places
the value of the manuscript at about a thousand
dollars."
"And we pay the author the greater compliment
of estimating its worth at ten thousand
dollars," said Skinner, with a courteous
wave of his hand toward Wintringham.
"I haven't got ten thousand dollars!"
growled Wintringham.
"If you please, Wintringham," said Robertson,
with a frown at his client, "I will do
the talking in this case.
Skinner laughed. <Jh, there s no harm
done, Robertson," he said patronizingly. "In
fact, I may say that your client's impulsively
frank admissions appeal to my sympathetic
side very strongly?yes, very strongly indeed.
Like his letters, his admission bursts
spontaneously from the heart, and is therefore'free
of guile. Now, nothing is further
from the thoughts either of Miss Vynne or
of myself, who in this instance must think
for her, than a desire unduly to mulct or embarrass
Mr. Wintringham. If he cannot
raise ten thousand dollars, let us hear what
he can do. We are not after a pound of
"The sentiment does you honor, Mr.
Skinner," said Robertson. "So let us begin
by taking Mr. Dalrymple's estimate?"
"Excuse me, Robertson," interrupted
Skinner, with a vicious slap of his right hand
upon the table, "but I really have no time
for puerilities. I can't really pursue this
line of argument. The question is whether
or not you are willing to face the situation
as it exists."
"I am trying to," said Robertson imperturbable,
but with the beginnings at least
of a glitter in his eye. "Let us stop all sparring,
then, and get down to figures. I still
insist upon finishing what I was about to
say, however. Mr. Dalrymple's estimate
ot tne value or tne letters is one tnousand
dollars; yours is ten thousand dollars. Suppose,
for the sake of avoiding acrimonious
discussion, I were to raise our estimate to
two thousand dollars. What then?''
"Then I should he inclined to come down
to eight thousand dollars," smiled Skinner.
"I see," said Robertson, "and so by mutual
concessions all along the line, working on
that ratio, we might meet on the common
ground of five thousand dollars?"
Wintringham gasped. He had never been
able to sell a short manuscript to anybody
else for such an amount, and the idea of having
to buy back his own material at that figure
filled him with dismay.
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\\ e mignt, saiu dinner noncommutally,
a look of serene satisfaction spreading
over his countenance. "I can't really say,
offhand."
"But," said Robertson, pressing the matter
home, "we want to settle this affair this
morning, Mr. Skinner. You yourself intimated
that a speedy settlement?"
"Very well," said Skinner, going through
the motions of an inward struggle. "Miss
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