Not this story, but that other one, was what he should have taken.

The other one in question, left out of mind for a time, had come back with a face of new possibility; it invited him, tempted him to throw aside what he had already written.

Good; now he was in more hopeful train.

But a few days, and the experience repeated itself.

No, not this story, but that third one, of which he had not thought for a long time.