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WORLDLY-WISE-MAN MAY BELONG TO EITHER SEX Several afternoons later Trent was to have further light thrown on the character of Christina Coles by a chance remark of Roger Adams, into whose office he had dropped for a moment as he was on his way to make his first call upon Mrs.Bridewell.
After a few friendly enquiries about the young man's own work, and the report of a promising word from the great Benson, Adams took up a letter lying loose among the papers on his big littered desk.
"Half the tragedy in New York is contained in a letter like this," he observed.

"Do you know, by the way, that the mass of outside literary workers drawn in at last by the whirlpool constitutes almost a population?
Take this girl, now, she is so consumed by her ambition, for heaven knows what, that she comes here and starves in an attic rather than keep away in comfort.

That reminds me," he added, with a sudden recollection, "she's from your part of the country." "Indeed!" An intuition shot like a conviction into Trent's mind.

"Could her name, I wonder, by any chance be Coles ?" "You know her then ?" "I've met her, but do you mean to say that ability is what she hasn't got ?" "For some things I've no doubt she has an amazing amount, only she's mistaken its probable natural bent.