Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-03-10
oPraCtiCal and the deal

tuEe, but unfortunately a1EeR the SCHOOL
he was fitted for had had its day. His
friend Forbes Hogden, practical fell
low, unincumbered with the slightest
idcality, used to poke fun at him f6r
writing poems and stories that no pub
Usher would accept.
"Why don't you get down to what
people want to read" said HOgden.
II can't write what isn't In me-" re-
piled Wilton despondently. ITO poF-
tray natural emotions authors must
experience them. It seems to me the
most popular writer's OF the present
day imagine things. then turn q lurid
Z light on them and photograph the
whole / have written one work every
word Of which / felt for, am in love
with my hereIne-not imaginatively,
but really. I would like to see it pub
lished"
''You never will, because there would
be no money In 1t for a publisher.
Still, IL you care TO let me have It I'll
turn 1t in at Sharp, Bliss q Co.'s and
praise 1t all / can. But II won't do
any good"
The next day Hogden. who really
uAu n kO0u OHAAAAUn VI LIE IAl[uU AUu-
tiles, received the manuscript and
tossed 1t into a drawer, intending to
read It before submitting 1t to the pub
fishers. 1t lay in that drawer 1--WE
years. Meanwhile Wilton, who with
out any income could not marry his
heroine, drifted away to unknown
lands. Then a report came that he
was dead.
One day Hogden came across the
manuscript his friend had left with
him i've years before. Hogden was
writing stories In the current vein.
from which by writing a great many
OF them he made a passable living.
He read the manuscript and saw q
great deal in It. Since there was no
living owner he concluded to appropri-
ate It to himself. he used the motif
and the feeling, cut out the ideality,
threw a lot Of Greek FIRE into 1t and
published 1t under his own name al a
novel Of the period.
The book proved a phenomenal sue
cess. HOgden made lot Of money out
OF it and. having established his liter
AIRY name, wrote other books with all
the Greek fire, but with none Of the
feeling Of the one he had appropri-
ated. They were even more successful
than his starter. Having accumulated
competency, 1t occurred to him to
marry and make home for himself.
Now. it happened that Wilton had
Introduced him to the heroine Of his
bowel and the lady Of his love. Hog
len went to see her, talked a great
aeal about his old friend Wilton, his
mpracticability, his incompetency and
bis ideality, all of which he classed I'm
he same category. He told her what
be had done with Whiton's work and
nded by saying:
IAN this. money / have made has
been coined out Of whiton's emotions.
4 which you were the exciting cause.
think you are entitled to a share in
be proceeds. You can have half and
u at my death II you survive me by
naFrying me-"
The lady was OF practical turn Of
lind, without fortune and withal get
ng older every day. She accepted
be offer. They were married and set
ed down into the humdrum Of life.
One evening they were sitting before
fire. The children were asleep. The
nsband was doing over paper. The
ife was darning stockings. There
AS a ring at the doorbell. and pres
htly a man walked In past the maid
no had admitted him.
''Mr. and Mrs. Hogden, believe"
said.
You have the advantage Of u.s."
I'd Hogden.
The stranger stood looking from the
ldheaded, gray bearded husband to
fat elderly wife.
am Leland Wilton"
You don't say so!'' exclaimed Hog
turning red and white by turns.
low, a similar scene to this had beer
wn in Whiton's novel that Hogder
appropriated Wilton had han
d 1t ideally; Hogden had trans
med It into a tragedy. The trans
lmer wondered which OF the two
Duld happen now. Wilton adopted
lther.
have come back" he said, ''to find
woman loved married to thG
IN the foundation to whose success
% the work Of my brain"
{ there was anything dramatic In
words there was nothing dramatiG
the way they were spoken. Hog
was not especially conBcientlOuI
sensitive. He did not crfnge. h
nply awaited developments.
individually Jon have the advan
e Of me-" Wilton went on, hut
ong to q class that has the advan
y Of yOu-that class whose repre-
: natives VIII be remembered cen
les after you have been forgotten
, class In which the most brightly
hing light In America il Edgar Al
Poe"
he was certainly the most digtin
shed failure In every Geld exeep
IDEAL" said Hogden-
You also have an advantage OF M,
his" said Within aIdeaIitV fade.