Now, sir, perpend.

Charley Steele is going to be a novel of one hundred thousand words or one hundred and twenty thousand--a real bang-up heartful of a novel." Then there follows the confidence of a friend to a friend.

As I look at the words I am not sorry that I wrote them.

They were a part of me.

They were the inveterate truth, but I would not willingly have uncovered my inner self to any except the man to whom the words were written.