I do not care to prove my genius at the cost of
the respect of my neighbors--all of which, however, is foreign to my
story, and is put in here merely because I have observed that readers
are very much interested in their favorite authors, and like to know
as much about them as they can.
My plan, to take up the thread of my narrative once more, was,
briefly, to write an interview between myself, as a representative of
a newspaper syndicate, and Miss Marguerite Andrews, the "Well-Known
Heroine." It has been quite common of late years to interview the
models of well-known artists, so that it did not require too great a
stretch of the imagination to make my scheme a reasonable one. It
must be remembered, too, that I had no intention of using this
interview for my own aggrandizement. I planned it solely in the
interests of my friend, hoping that I might secure from Miss Andrews
some unguarded admission that might operate against her own
principles, as Harley and I knew them, and that, that secured, I
might induce her to follow meekly his schedule until he could bring
his story to a reasonable conclusion.
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