" Osborne would murmur, "At last!" and the
book would close with a "first kiss," followed closely by six or
eight pages of advertisements of other publications of Messrs.
Herring, Beemer, & Chadwick. I mention the latter to show how
thoroughly realistic Harley was. He thought out his books so truly
and so fully before he sat down to write them that he seemed to see
each written, printed, made and bound before him, a concrete thing
from cover to cover.
Besides Osborne and Balderstone and Miss Andrews--of whom I shall at
this time not speak at length, since the balance of this little
narrative is to be devoted to the setting forth of her peculiarities
and charms--there were a number of minor characters, not so necessary
to the story perhaps as they might have been, but interesting enough
in their way, and very well calculated to provide the material needed
for the filling out of the required number of pages. Furthermore,
they completed the picture.
"I don't want to put in three vivid figures, and leave the reader to
imagine that the rest of the world has been wiped out of existence,"
said Harley, as he talked it over with me.
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