But it was not quite in order.

Could I get it so in a few hours?
In that case he would send a messenger for it from the hotel.
Yes, I could.

Very good! A little further talk and he left with a strong handshake.

Three or four hours later he had the manuscript and took it with him from Birmingham that night." Page's enterprising visit had put into his hands the half-finished manuscript of a story, "To Have and to Hold," which, when printed in the _Atlantic_, more than doubled its circulation, and which, when made into a book, proved one of the biggest successes since "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Page's most independent stroke in his _Atlantic_ days came with the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.

Boston was then the headquarters of a national mood which has almost passed out of popular remembrance.
Its spokesmen called themselves anti-imperialists.