He would go and see her when he finished the article on the treasure-hunters.

It was not so difficult to abstain from seeing her, because of the violent heat of creative fever that burned in him.

Besides, the very article he was writing would bring her nearer to him.

He did not know how long an article he should write, but he counted the words in a double-page article in the Sunday supplement of the San Francisco Examiner, and guided himself by that.

Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks.