You wrote, some months since, an account of a personal visit to the German Emperor; I forget now where it appeared." "Oh, yes," said Miss Baxter; "that was written for the _Summer Magazine_, and was illustrated by photographs." "It struck me," continued Hardwick, without looking at her, "that it was an article written by a person who had never seen the German Emperor, but who had collected and assimilated material from whatever source presented itself." The young woman, in nowise abashed, laughed; but still the editor did not look up.
"Yes," she admitted, "that is precisely how it was written.

I never have had the pleasure of meeting William II.

myself." "What I have always insisted upon in work submitted to me," growled the editor in a deep voice, "is absolute accuracy.

I take it that you have called to see me because you wish to do some work for this paper." "You are quite right in that surmise also," answered Miss Jennie.
"Still, if I may say so, there was nothing inaccurate in my article about the German Emperor.

My compilation was from thoroughly authentic sources, so I maintain it was as truthfully exact as anything that has ever appeared in the _Bugle_." "Perhaps our definitions of truth might not quite coincide.