The first wrong step was taken when Mr.Lindau was asked to help on the magazine." "Well, it was your infallible Fulkerson that took the step, or at least suggested it.

I'm happy to say I had totally forgotten my early friend." Mrs.March was daunted and silenced for a moment.

Then she said: "Oh, pshaw! You know well enough he did it to please you." "I'm very glad he didn't do it to please you, Isabel," said her husband, with affected seriousness.

"Though perhaps he did." He began to look at the humorous aspect of the affair, which it certainly had, and to comment on the singular incongruities which 'Every Other Week' was destined to involve at every moment of its career.

"I wonder if I'm mistaken in supposing that no other periodical was ever like it.