came 5 day when publishers no longer made me tempting offers of
large advance royalties; when editors ceased to solicit stories by me.
I said to myself:

 ‘:L'.|!1)3.s is my opportunity
to get away tmmw Japanese tales". 

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”  three anonymous stories. I suhnitted than

 

anonymously to editors. sold. them anonymously and they were published

anonymously. They ran in three wellimown nagaainea, the century, the

Saturday Evening Post and Hearsts Magazine.
my onn!ﬁ.IS8am£&.»:u€*+wni&$ty.. But then a. curious plnae came over me.

I was like one who had been running for a. long time in a. mode. lantally.

I was breathless.  

 

 

:01,‘ 1. .‘  -- ’ :2  ..  .~.-  , I found myself unable to write. rreviously

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writing to me  always been aooompliohed. with iaoility. I did. my ‘best
work writing very swiftly, while the plot woe still hot in nw mind. low
though my brain teamed. with plots and tub. when I not down to write it
refused. to function. only the boldest, coldest phrases, stilted end. unin- 1
spires came. A terror possessed me that .-an I was done for —-Ir1tt~.en out.
I had lost my single talent. And I was still, oomparitivoly speaking,
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During this period, someone was saying to me almost daily;
"why write love stories. Live one. Lots out: all this
out. Harry me, and we will so out west-northwest--.-out to some ;I_i,g_
country-..a country in the making! ‘.'.'1B.t do you say?"
He was a. bigzellow, the kind one calls a men‘: men. I-illﬁﬁs

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personality t-hue:-.r-age: a dominating, fine clean sort of strength. 3
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Ind steady, keen, kind blue eyes and 9% ehin‘. inir or a noudosetipt

blonde color and one or those fine, straight noses tint are somehow

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*3S'P1oa11y_‘7ﬁ'%.. ’ 1 lad been holding him at arm's length for one big