Arizona republican., 1895-02-01

". give a man encouragement when he | doesn't need it. Now that I am get 1 ting along you ask me to write for i your magazine, ignoring the fact that you have rejected more MMS. of mine than any other man in London, which 1 is saying a good deal"
 The editor looked at him now with genuine surprise in his eyes.
 My dear sir," he said, ''you are la boring under some strange mistake. never in my life saw a MMS. of yours"
 q am sorry to contradict you," re- piled Trigg, ''but have too many let ters in my possession which tend to prove the contrary. I have, believe, some in your own handwriting, not ln- tended for my eyes, of course, in which you speak with great frankness, of what you were pleased tC term the utter driv.r have written"
 ~ would like very much," said the surprised editor, ito see one of those letters. To tell the truth I am getting OF in years, and my position on the magazine is largely nominal l occa- sionally contribute something, but the MSS. sent in are entirely dealt with by our reader and finally by MT. Den ton. He is the real editor of the maga- zine, as thought everybody knew, and has been for the past ten years"
 ''You surprise me-" said Trigg. ''Of course until quite recently have known nothing ot the inner life of literary London, and since joining the staff of the Acadaneum I have been too busy to pay attention to it. Have you, then, no power on the magazine with which your name is connected?"
 ''Oh, have the power if 1 choose to exercise it; but have very little taste for the drudgery of editing, and l leave it entirely in the hands of my subor- dinates."
 ''What you say" said Trigg, ''in- terests me more than you can be aware of. I would like, if you do not mind, to show you some day a number of let ters I have had from the office of your magazine"
 q should be pleased to see them," answered the other, and they made an appointment to meet at the club of the editor.
 The old maR was very much aston ished when he saw the letters. ''These alleged extracts from notes of mine are not in my writing. They were never written by me. If Denton wished to reject your MSS. he should at least have had the honesty to take the responsibility upon himself"
 The next week Trigg received a note from the editor of the magazine in question. It was to the following eff feet:
 ''If you think it worth an item in your usual column of literary notes | you have my authority for making the announcement that Alfred Denton, for many years subeditor of the - maga- zine, is no longer connected with that periodical"
 Trigg chuckled as he read this let | ter,
 ''Denton,' he said to himself, ''the treacherous scoundrel, will find out now that it is easier to lose situation like that than to get another" And he ] added a cutting line to the item he wrote about his former friend, which, without being ibelous, indicated that Denton's leaving of the magazine was practically dismissal in disgrace.
 Denton soon realized that runors were abroad about him, and his endeavors to get fresh footing in the line that led to ultimate edit orship were discouraging failures. It was under these circumstances that he wrote his first book and had it pub lished under nom de plume. It galled Trigg for many eH3y after to know that what he wrote Gbout this book was upon the whole favorable, indeed exceedingly favorable for Trigg, who at once recognized the merit ot the work without in the least guessing ! who it's author was.
 By this time T-igg had reached a commanding position upon his paper and what he wrote for its columns was printed as he wrote it, with no blue pencil supervision.
 Denton, pleased with the success o1 his first book, allowed it to be an nounced that he was the anonymous author.
 Trigg gnashed his teeth when he realized that he had helped his enemy
 but he held his peace and waited.
 A three-volume novel was announced When those three volumes came to the
 Acadaneum office, Trigg felt that his time for vengeance had come. He de
 voted page to it. Moth g so bitter and so crushing even before or since appeared in the cynical columns O
 that paper. It was merciless, anG everyone recognized that Denton hat received his death-blow as novelist | Nona rao1i1ad +bic rnora than DentOr