The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-17
THE AUTHOR OF
 PETERS UNLOOSED." |"
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most important since he requires the
 most money in his business, though the printer Is nos usually far behind him. l There were more of both these classes
 in the club mentioned than of authors, | few of whom had money to pay the dues
 But this is Aggression. The party
 were discussing a new book that had 1 lust been published by firm, one of ! the junior members of which was pres ] eut, "Feuors Uuloosed' IL had met | with instant success. The authors InQme was no, given. the nom de plume | being Emery purIwmkla. It was one of those g.lGcd pills the wOrld-that world which reads sensational novels 1 loves to swallow. It gave un excuse
 for what many people desired, but re- trained from doing, and some do with more OF less resistance. It would have | becI well enough except that its priu- clDles if carried into effect would break
 up perhaps une family in every three | or five
 "Comc. Stanton" said one of the
 men present Co thn publisher; "trIl ms who Emery p,s.wuEle iH" "Couldn possibly It would be a be- l trayaI oI confidence"
 "At least tell us ir the author of 'Fejjers UulooFed is man or woman' "COuIla't dy that, tLer." "No woman wouG ever have taken
 tbau view of the subtecL" said one of the party"
 Why u0tE'
 "She would need to have been cor rupted by a bad world, and my expert l ence Is that only women who wish to l be Corruutc1 are corruptad.'
 "I don't ,l-us much or that argu- meut" said another "buJ It is not
 needed. Everything m the book is l from a mans standpoint"
 "Tll tell you what I'u do," said Stan | ton. "Tn make a pool. There are four of you I'll put in S5 for each of you. l Then I'll give a supper to 9yenty peo-
 pie, the author of 'Fetters Embossed to be among the number You shall l throw dice for choice. The one throw ! Ing the highest number may pick out l i've persons, each man In succession ' thus picking out five Whoever has included the author In his number wins the pool
 Where do you come lnE' ] "Ie Oh. we'll make the number of l guests tweuty-One- This leaves one ! uuchUseu. I'll take the one left out" Stanton could well afford the treat and the others were much pleased t0 accept lt. A few days later each one l { the four received an invitation to 8 ] supper party at SJantou's house to .se place at II o'clock, after the the ..ars were out They found there Ee-eu men and ten women. Some of | ,Gc men and some of the women were known to be authors, some ambitious ] ID le authors and some not known at oII as usDirauts for literary h0u0rs | they were as different from one au- utler as could possibly be. Some were self conscious. some modest, and therc were some who did not seem su.u- ricutly gifted jn ideas for ordinary usc let alone writing a book. There were Two men with a sensual look I.about them. one woman who appeared | a trlGe loud and a girl of nineteen who rnsleI if any one spoke to her During the suppcr-the order of huiee had been decided before it be eau-each of the four members or thc | pool selected five of the guests. The loud woman and one of the sensual
 men were taken up in the lrst choice. The other sensual man and a mcm'er
 of the WUmun's Press club were iu tha ] next lot. The man having third choice ! picked all the rest who looked as if bv l any possibility they could write | book The fourth man was obliged to ! take what was left. none Of whom gave the slightest appearance Of being
 Q winner. The girl who blushed, not having been chosen, fell to Stanton. The party was too incougruaas to 1 keep lgug together, and when it broke up the four pool members remained be- hind. Stanton called on the man who had first chosau to nmne the winner ! from his number. He named first tho l loud woman. then four others in sue ] cession. but Stanton shook bis head at
 every one. Second choice then made his guesses and failed. The guessing
 now came to be exciting. When third choice failed to name the author. all
 were stvuck with wonder, and when i fourth choice failed every man ac- cused Stanton of having gone back on l hIs agreement.
 Not at all, gentlemen, he said soft. 1 Iy. There still remains one person not named"
 What. That stupid looking child uot | yet f 10 be out of the nursery who fell l to you: She doesn't count"
 Every one in the party counts. l agreed that the author should be pres
 ent at the supper and have kept my l agreement People blame us publish. | CTS because we cant tell the big win
 ming novels before the public pro nouuces on them. I gave you gentle. men all the chances, taking the last that none of you wanted, and won l Tho gufh0r 0F 'FgtLprg TnIOOsed' Is