I said that I would stay in the office and read the proofs as they came from the press, and would not move until it was finished.

Refusal had been written on the lips and the face of the manager at the beginning, but at last I prevailed.

He brought the foreman down there and then.
Each of us, elated by the conditions of the struggle, determined to pull the thing off.

We printed that book of sixty-five thousand words or so, in forty-eight hours, and it arrived in Washington three hours before the time was up.

I saved the copyright, and I need hardly say that my gratitude to the Trow Directory Binding Company was as great as their delight in having done a really brilliant piece of work.
The day after the copyright was completed, I happened to mention the incident to Mr.Archibald Clavering Gunter, author of Mr.Barnes of New York, who had a publishing house for his own books.