I'll put it into the Saturday
supplement. Call on Saturday morning and I'll remunerate you."
How well I remember that word "remunerate"! I have had an
affection for the word ever since. And remunerate me he did;
scribbled something on a scrap of paper, which I presented to the
cashier. The sum was eighteen dollars. Behold me saved!'
He sipped his coffee again.
'I have never come across an English editor who treated me with
anything like that consideration and general kindliness. How the
man had time, in his position, to see me so often, and do things
in such a human way, I can't understand. Imagine anyone trying
the same at the office of a London newspaper! To begin with, one
couldn't see the editor at all. I shall always think with
profound gratitude of that man with the peaked brown beard and
pleasant smile.'
'But did the pea-nuts come after that!' inquired Dora.
'Alas! they did. For some months I supported myself in Chicago,
writing for that same paper, and for others. But at length the
flow of my inspiration was checked; I had written myself out.
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