I opened up pretty freely to him, as you do to a man you never expect to see again, and when I found he was in that newspaper syndicate business I told him about my early literary ambitions--" "You can't say that I ever discouraged them, Basil," his wife put in.

"I should have been willing, any time, to give up everything for them." "Well, he says that I first suggested this brilliant idea to him.
Perhaps I did; I don't remember.

When he told me about his supplying literature to newspapers for simultaneous publication, he says I asked: 'Why not apply the principle of co-operation to a magazine, and run it in the interest of the contributors ?' and that set him to thinking, and he thought out his plan of a periodical which should pay authors and artists a low price outright for their work and give them a chance of the profits in the way of a percentage.

After all, it isn't so very different from the chances an author takes when he publishes a book.
And Fulkerson thinks that the novelty of the thing would pique public curiosity, if it didn't arouse public sympathy.

And the long and short of it is, Isabel, that he wants me to help edit it." "To edit it ?" His wife caught her breath, and she took a little time to realize the fact, while she stared hard at her husband to make sure he was not joking.
"Yes.