He's to run my next as a _feuilleton_.

This--this venture is to be rather more serious in tone than any that he's done hitherto.

You understand ?" "Why, yes," I said; "but I don't see where I come in." Callan took a meditative sip of whiskey, added a little more water, a little more whiskey, and then found the mixture to his liking.
"You see," he said, "Fox got a letter here to say that Wilkinson had died suddenly--some affection of the heart.

Wilkinson was to have written a series of personal articles on prominent people.

Well, Fox was nonplussed and I put in a word for you." "I'm sure I'm much--" I began.
"Not at all, not at all," Callan interrupted, blandly.