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โWhat do you care, anyway?โ asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. โIt isn't as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact that a mere pastime fails to be financially a success. You don't need to writeโโ
โNeither do you need to slave over those dry-point things,โ Thurston retorted, in none the best humor with his comforter โYou've an income bigger than mine; yet you toil over Grecian-nosed women with untidy hair as if each one meant a meal and a bed.โ
โA meal and a bedโthat's good; you must think I live like a king.โ
โAnd I notice you hate like the mischief to fail, even though.โ
โOnly I never have failed,โ put in Reeve-Howard, with the amused complacency born of much adulation.
Thurston kicked a foot-rest out of his way. โWell, I have. The fashion now is for swashbuckling tales with a haze of powder smoke rising to high heaven. The public taste runs to gore and more gore, and kidnappings of beautiful maidens-bah!โ
โFollow the fashion thenโif you must write. Get out of your pink tea and orchid atmosphere, and take your heroines out Westโaway out, beyond the Mississippi, and let them be kidnapped. Or New Mexico would do.โ
โNew Mexico is also beyond the Mississippi, I believe,โ Thurston hinted.
โPerhaps it is. What I mean is, write what the public wants, since you don't relish failure. Why don't you do things about the plains? It ought to be easy, and you were born out there somewhere. It should come natural.โ
โI have,โ Thurston sighed. โMy last rejection states that the local color is weak and unconvincing. Hang the local color!โ The foot-rest suffered again.
Reeve-Howard was getting into his topcoat languidly, as he did everything else. โThe thing to do, then,โ he drawled, โis to go out and study up on it. Get in touch with that country, and your local color will convince. Personally though, I like those little society skits you doโโ
โSkits!โ exploded Thurston. โMy last was a four-part serial. I never did a skit in my life.โ
โBeg pardon-which is more than you did after accusing my studies of having untidy hair. Don't look so glum, Phil. Go out and learn your West; a month or so will put you up to dateโand by Jove! I half envy you the trip.โ
That is what put the idea into Thurston's head; and as Thurston's ideas generally bore fruit of one sort or another, he went out that very day and ordered from his tailor a complete riding outfit, and because he was a good customer the tailor consented to rush the work. It seemed to Thurston, looking over cuts of the very latest styles in riding clothes, that already he was breathing the atmosphere of the plains.
That night he stayed at home and dreamed, of the West. His memory, coupled
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