The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-05-24
Crossed Inventions
: BY George T. Pardy.


and on the way you read Swim
burne until you came to the line
IF you were Aprirs Lady and were
Lord OF May"
And it occurred to you what capt.
tai name for a story Aprils Lady
would be?"
Yes" she repeated and then turned
to Edwards to ask: rs this mind
reading?"
I'm sure I don't know" returned
the editor
And the rest of the way to Bos-
ton continued Morrison, you were
celebrating your story You took the
heroine's name from the same line"
Exactly nodded Miss Deane But
| how can you know these things?
don't understand it at all"
ITS sure enough case of thought
transference, / suppose, said Nor
rison gravely. Il never believed in
that sort of thing before, but one
can't deny such proofs as these"
But" broke in Edwards. apart
from the solution of how it happened,
what l want to know is, whose story
this really is?"
Miss Deane's, by all means" re-
sponded Morrison CALAMITY. IF
hadn't impertinently looked over her
shoulder, l shouldn't have had any
share in it whatever"
You are very generous, Mr.. Nor
rison," said the girl, smiling. but
see no reason why you should give
way to me. / prefer to pocket my
manuscript and retire"
Morrison entered a vigorous pro-
test against this suggestion, and then
the editor came to the rescue of the
perplexed authors. why not work
together and make one story out of
the two?' he queried. Il would like
to see the effect of collaboration on
this mystic tale"
Morrison seized eagerly on the idea
and after a short discussion, Miss
Deane consented to try the expert
ment. During the course of the fol-
lowing week they discovered that al
though their acquaintance got on ia
mously, the much talked-of story was
not advancing rapidly. A very brief
time sufficed to reduce both versions
of "April's Lady" to hopeless confu-
sion, but to build from the fragments
a new and improved copy was labor
of much magnitude. Circumstances
conspired to hinder progress. 1t was
necessary that they should verify
their impressions of materials they
had used. and to do this they were
obliged to attend the theater together,
to read various poems, and together
to hear a good deal of music. A little
ingenuity and a common inclination
to prolong these pleasant investiga-
lions. took up so much time that il
was several months before they could
even pretend to be ready to begin
serious work upon the story.
One evening they were on their way
home from a concert which they had
boldly attended without even a pre-
tense that it was in the remotest way
connected with literary projects, when
Morrison made a suggestion.
Kate" he remarked, Il fear we are
becoming demoralized and it seems
to me that the only hope Of our ever
completing 'Aprirs Lady is to put
everything else aside for the time be-
ing and give our minds to it. So
think we had better be quietly mar
ried and go to some rustic resort and
get that elusive tale on paper at last"
"As to being married" returned
Kate, have you considered that we
could not make a living, since we
should inevitably be writing the same
things?"
THAT is my chief reason for pro-
posing it," rejoined Morrison. Think
how awkward it is going to be II
either of us marries somebody else,
and then we write the same things. It
is good deal better to have our in
terests in common. If our inventive
faculty is to be So"
After due reflection Kate decided
that this view of the case was the
correct one and the marriage took
place in the following month. "Aprirs
Lady," has never yet appeared in
print, but this fact does not prevent
Morrison from considering IL the
most valuable of all his literary Ia.
bors, for through its agency he won
wife who is devoted to him.
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