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Updated: May 16, 2025
You walked up and down this room with your hands behind your back, and dictated chapter after chapter, and I sat at this table taking it all down in shorthand. Then you went out and took the air while I industriously whacked it out on the type-writer." "I wish you wouldn't say 'whacked, Scriver. That's twice you've used it."
My exact mutation of your signature has enabled me to withdraw £10,000 from your bank account. Half the profits, you know. You can send future accumulations, for the book will continue to sell, to the address of "ADAM SCRIVER. "Poste Restant, Madrid, Spain" Mr. Ringamy at once put the case in the hands of the detectives, where it still remains.
As he said this, the young man shoved towards the author a letter which he had written, and Mr. Ringamy looked at it critically. "Very good, Scriver, very good indeed. In fact, if I were put in the witness-box I am not sure that I would be able to swear that this was not my signature. What's this you have said in the body of the letter about sentiment?
Scriver," said the author, also hitching up his chair towards the table. He sighed as he did so, for the fair spring prospect from the library window was much more attractive than the task of answering an extensive correspondence. "Is there a large mail this morning, Scriver?" "A good-sized one, sir. Many of them, however, are notes asking for your autograph." "Enclose stamps, do they?"
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