Henry C. Rowland

“ So I thankfully took her into my confidence—told her that my best friend was in a fair way to make a mess of his life and that the only stimulus to which he reacted was that of the printed page, preferably fiction. ”

“ If he dislikes her enough to make his marriage a penalty, he might better choke her at once and be done with it.
Having found the antidote, as we hoped, the next thing was to administer it without the use of a gag and a tube, Claudius would have smelled a rat if I had tried to bell him with that book. Here Miss Grayling, my library friend, stepped into the breach. She got the reviewing of the book, which was just out, and I took the child dancer into the plot and had her force the review on Claudius in the Times. ”