St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-04-23
A NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW.
"a lady to see you, sir"

might be close at hand, in compliment
to her sex his anathemas were uttered
in German.
"How charming!" she exclaimed,
coming into the room with little
rush. IL have got my first point
already. You are familiar with the
modern languages" And she made a
note
MADAM said Jeremy Grigson,
with severe bow, II have an excel
lent memory, but cannot recollect
having made your acquaintance on
any previous OCCASION
"You have an excellent memory !?
Thanks" She made another note.
"May l sit down? am rather tired. v
Certainly, madam. v Jeremy placed
chair for her. and you will then,
perhaps, kindly let me know to what
| am indebted for the pleasure of
your company"
Just let me take down'-she
scrubbed rapidly, murmuring to her
self "Frigid manner, stately, Old
World form OF address, furniture
chosen with an eye to comfort rather
than beauty
Her pencil paused, and she glanced
at him with smile apparently
intended TO set him at his ease.
Il am from The Weekly Chat
terer, >" she said. "Can you let me
have a photograph to go in with
the interview 7"
"Never had one taken in my life"
said Jeremy. He wasnot handsome
man, yet there was something in his
face better than good looks.
mot even when you were baby ?
Almost anything would do
Not even then"
"Ah! of course not. And you were
reared on
"Green tea, | believe. Don't | look
like it r"
She wrote down, Highly nervous,
rather dyspeptic," and went on.
Talking of things that came after
your time-how old are you exactly !?
Ofcourse it is only women who are
guilty of the weakness of Directing
to tell their ages"
II shall be a hundred if live to
the end OF this. Allow me one ques-
ton: What have done that should
be interviewed ?"
She wrote again, murmuring,
Modest, and apparently unaware
of his own fame, and then answered
Don't you know that the whole
town is talking of your book ?"
II don't know anything about it"
he said savagely, except that | sold
the copyright for 500, and that the
$40 is spent"
She had got hold of an immense
fact, but she dropped her pencil, and
her flippant, aggressive air with it.
what a shame!" she said; what
wicked shame! Your publishers
will make hundreds and thousands
out Of that book. 1t is creating a
Juror. Such a case should not be
possible; and especially when man
really needs the money
He looked attentivelv at her for
the first time. He had seen already
that she was young and pretty; but
he noticed now that there was a
worn, pinched look about her small
very pretty face. He had seen TIE
same look growing on other faces III
Bohemia it had grown upon his
own; and he knew the meaning O
it.
"You understand about needing
money ?" he asked her.
IL should think | do" she answered
sharply. "Do you suppose | would
be here now if l didn't"
Sometimes people work at {
trade because they like it."
"If it were a trade that | liked
everything would be different.
aspired to literature once, but IcoulC
not even make dry bread byit. Eve
since have been hanging on to tn
skirts Of journalism, and sometime
there is great deal of mud on them
If you only knew how people trea
me now and again when | go t.
interview them You must than
your stars and your genius 70
having placed you above all that a
any rate"
"Are they often as brutal as
wasp he asked gently. IL at
awfully sorry; won't you iorgiv
me?"
Don't mind about it," she sal