o schoolgirl fiction was no treat to him. Besides there was so much to be read concerning the war in that month of March, 1917, and little time in which to read it. War was an obsession wit

ardly wait for the final declaration of war. He had his den, safe from the encroachments of the "Would-be Authors' Club,"

g must be appointed by the two performers. All manuscript must be written legibly if not typewritten, so that the club need n

re some members who were in it for the fun they got out of it or for a certain prestige they fancied they would gain from these weekly meetings at the home of the popular wife of a popular professor.

said Molly to Mary Neil as the library filled. "Y

all night trying to finish a stor

ou bri

as too much

t. "There are plenty of us who had things

t of the really and truly "Would-be's" some gem of purest ray serene in the shape of a manuscript was only waiting to be div

the other reader has fallen out of the running," said Molly, looking as severely

on, who was destined to become famous as a writer of fiction. Billie had no great talent but she possessed a fresh breez

hair is not the floor,"

o pronounced success as a writer of fiction, she

erve as vice, and when I have something import

girl who had a plot she was dying to divulge and devoutly h

and Billie rap

ving to read before the club was just as exciting to Molly as to the

age fright but I can't

girl from Alabama, who only the week before had bee

y and it always comes back to its doting mother. I

!" came from s

ened to me yet was once a Western magazine kept my ma

ell it, and something must be done to it before the editors will

said parliame

it?" asked

thousand wor

l who hoped to get h

tell you I saw a clipping in the New York Times asking for Fairy Godmothers for the sol

d occasionally one did hear the scratching of a penc