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He
did
not
know
that
he
was
himself
possessed
of
unusual
brain
vigor
;
nor
did
he
know
that
the
persons
who
were
given
to
probing
the
depths
and
to
thinking
ultimate
thoughts
were
not
to
be
found
in
the
drawing
rooms
of
the
world
’
s
Morses
;
nor
did
he
dream
that
such
persons
were
as
lonely
eagles
sailing
solitary
in
the
azure
sky
far
above
the
earth
and
its
swarming
freight
of
gregarious
life
.
But
success
had
lost
Martin
’
s
address
,
and
her
messengers
no
longer
came
to
his
door
.
For
twenty
-
five
days
,
working
Sundays
and
holidays
,
he
toiled
on
"
The
Shame
of
the
Sun
,
"
a
long
essay
of
some
thirty
thousand
words
.
It
was
a
deliberate
attack
on
the
mysticism
of
the
Maeterlinck
school
—
an
attack
from
the
citadel
of
positive
science
upon
the
wonder
-
dreamers
,
but
an
attack
nevertheless
that
retained
much
of
beauty
and
wonder
of
the
sort
compatible
with
ascertained
fact
.
It
was
a
little
later
that
he
followed
up
the
attack
with
two
short
essays
,
"
The
Wonder
-
Dreamers
"
and
"
The
Yardstick
of
the
Ego
.
"
And
on
essays
,
long
and
short
,
he
began
to
pay
the
travelling
expenses
from
magazine
to
magazine
.
During
the
twenty
-
five
days
spent
on
"
The
Shame
of
the
Sun
,
"
he
sold
hack
-
work
to
the
extent
of
six
dollars
and
fifty
cents
.
A
joke
had
brought
in
fifty
cents
,
and
a
second
one
,
sold
to
a
high
-
grade
comic
weekly
,
had
fetched
a
dollar
.
Then
two
humorous
poems
had
earned
two
dollars
and
three
dollars
respectively
.
As
a
result
,
having
exhausted
his
credit
with
the
tradesmen
(
though
he
had
increased
his
credit
with
the
grocer
to
five
dollars
)
,
his
wheel
and
suit
of
clothes
went
back
to
the
pawnbroker
.
The
type
-
writer
people
were
again
clamoring
for
money
,
insistently
pointing
out
that
according
to
the
agreement
rent
was
to
be
paid
strictly
in
advance
.
Encouraged
by
his
several
small
sales
,
Martin
went
back
to
hack
-
work
.
Perhaps
there
was
a
living
in
it
,
after
all
.
Stored
away
under
his
table
were
the
twenty
storiettes
which
had
been
rejected
by
the
newspaper
short
-
story
syndicate
.
He
read
them
over
in
order
to
find
out
how
not
to
write
newspaper
storiettes
,
and
so
doing
,
reasoned
out
the
perfect
formula
.
He
found
that
the
newspaper
storiette
should
never
be
tragic
,
should
never
end
unhappily
,
and
should
never
contain
beauty
of
language
,
subtlety
of
thought
,
nor
real
delicacy
of
sentiment
.
Sentiment
it
must
contain
,
plenty
of
it
,
pure
and
noble
,
of
the
sort
that
in
his
own
early
youth
had
brought
his
applause
from
"
nigger
heaven
"
—
the
"
For
-
God
-
my
-
country
-
and
-
the
-
Czar
"
and
"
I
-
may
-
be
-
poor
-
but
-
I
-
am
-
honest
"
brand
of
sentiment
.
Having
learned
such
precautions
,
Martin
consulted
"
The
Duchess
"
for
tone
,
and
proceeded
to
mix
according
to
formula
.
The
formula
consists
of
three
parts
:
(
1
)
a
pair
of
lovers
are
jarred
apart
;
(
2
)
by
some
deed
or
event
they
are
reunited
;
(
3
)
marriage
bells
.
The
third
part
was
an
unvarying
quantity
,
but
the
first
and
second
parts
could
be
varied
an
infinite
number
of
times
.
Thus
,
the
pair
of
lovers
could
be
jarred
apart
by
misunderstood
motives
,
by
accident
of
fate
,
by
jealous
rivals
,
by
irate
parents
,
by
crafty
guardians
,
by
scheming
relatives
,
and
so
forth
and
so
forth
;
they
could
be
reunited
by
a
brave
deed
of
the
man
lover
,
by
a
similar
deed
of
the
woman
lover
,
by
change
of
heart
in
one
lover
or
the
other
,
by
forced
confession
of
crafty
guardian
,
scheming
relative
,
or
jealous
rival
,
by
voluntary
confession
of
same
,
by
discovery
of
some
unguessed
secret
,
by
lover
storming
girl
’
s
heart
,
by
lover
making
long
and
noble
self
-
sacrifice
,
and
so
on
,
endlessly
.
It
was
very
fetching
to
make
the
girl
propose
in
the
course
of
being
reunited
,
and
Martin
discovered
,
bit
by
bit
,
other
decidedly
piquant
and
fetching
ruses
.
But
marriage
bells
at
the
end
was
the
one
thing
he
could
take
no
liberties
with
;
though
the
heavens
rolled
up
as
a
scroll
and
the
stars
fell
,
the
wedding
bells
must
go
on
ringing
just
the
same
.
In
quantity
,
the
formula
prescribed
twelve
hundred
words
minimum
dose
,
fifteen
hundred
words
maximum
dose
.
Before
he
got
very
far
along
in
the
art
of
the
storiette
,
Martin
worked
out
half
a
dozen
stock
forms
,
which
he
always
consulted
when
constructing
storiettes
.
These
forms
were
like
the
cunning
tables
used
by
mathematicians
,
which
may
be
entered
from
top
,
bottom
,
right
,
and
left
,
which
entrances
consist
of
scores
of
lines
and
dozens
of
columns
,
and
from
which
may
be
drawn
,
without
reasoning
or
thinking
,
thousands
of
different
conclusions
,
all
unchallengably
precise
and
true
.
Thus
,
in
the
course
of
half
an
hour
with
his
forms
,
Martin
could
frame
up
a
dozen
or
so
storiettes
,
which
he
put
aside
and
filled
in
at
his
convenience
.
He
found
that
he
could
fill
one
in
,
after
a
day
of
serious
work
,
in
the
hour
before
going
to
bed
.
As
he
later
confessed
to
Ruth
,
he
could
almost
do
it
in
his
sleep
.
The
real
work
was
in
constructing
the
frames
,
and
that
was
merely
mechanical
.
He
had
no
doubt
whatever
of
the
efficacy
of
his
formula
,
and
for
once
he
knew
the
editorial
mind
when
he
said
positively
to
himself
that
the
first
two
he
sent
off
would
bring
checks
.
And
checks
they
brought
,
for
four
dollars
each
,
at
the
end
of
twelve
days
.
In
the
meantime
he
was
making
fresh
and
alarming
discoveries
concerning
the
magazines
.
Though
the
Transcontinental
had
published
"
The
Ring
of
Bells
,
"
no
check
was
forthcoming
.
Martin
needed
it
,
and
he
wrote
for
it
.
An
evasive
answer
and
a
request
for
more
of
his
work
was
all
he
received
.
He
had
gone
hungry
two
days
waiting
for
the
reply
,
and
it
was
then
that
he
put
his
wheel
back
in
pawn
.
He
wrote
regularly
,
twice
a
week
,
to
the
Transcontinental
for
his
five
dollars
,
though
it
was
only
semi
-
occasionally
that
he
elicited
a
reply
.
He
did
not
know
that
the
Transcontinental
had
been
staggering
along
precariously
for
years
,
that
it
was
a
fourth
-
rater
,
or
tenth
-
rater
,
without
standing
,
with
a
crazy
circulation
that
partly
rested
on
petty
bullying
and
partly
on
patriotic
appealing
,
and
with
advertisements
that
were
scarcely
more
than
charitable
donations
.
