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or was there? I put the typescript under my arm and made nat
my way through the barrier.
I have a small top flat in Knightsbridge, behind Harrods. I
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_back in the afternoon and read the book through at my
leisure.
I picked up my papers and glanced through them. I take
Sporting Life, the Daily World, and The Times, and I read them
_ in that order. Today I was in something of a hurry so I put
Sporting Life aside until the afternoon and glanced at the
headlines in the Daily World. An American senator had been
letting fly at British policy in the Middle East and Britain
generally, and there were banner headlines of his speech,
_ There was nobody I knew either dead or engaged according
to The Times. I read the racing column and the cricket scores
and then turned to the leader. ‘Stresses and Strains’ this was
headed. It concerned Anglo-American relations and took as
__ its text the same senator’s speech which was annoying the
Daily World. It expressed the opinion at some length that
allies must give and take and pull together. On the leader
page, too, was an indignant letter on the subject of our being
ruled from Washington. This letter had pride of place at the
top of the column and was signed by a well-known
hard-hitting peer. Someone, it seemed, was rocking the
boat.
I went into my bedroom and changed out of my tweeds.
As I was letting myself out I saw the typescript lying where I
had left it on a side table. I couldn’t help myself; I picked it
up and began to leaf through it. The very first sentence
caught my eye: “They make excellent champagne cocktails in
Kléber’s in the Rue Royale.’ Well, that was typical of
Rupert, anyway, I thought. He liked champagne cocktails as
he liked most of the good things of life, and he didn’t care who
paid for them as long as it wasn’t himself. The little clock on
my mantelpiece struck eleven. Realizing that I should never
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which, a few yards away, a fire-escape led down. Too easy, I
thought. I closed the window and as I did so my doorbell
rang. I went down the hall and admitted Saunders.
‘So,’ the publisher said, as he eased his long body into a ¥
chair. “You’ve lost a manuscript. Very reprehensible. Why,
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Summer I’m often abroad. First, from the strictly business
point of view how much does it matter losing this ?’
‘T never look at anything from the strictly business point of
view. ‘“‘While every care is taken no responsibility, etc.,”’ is
our motto. I should think you’re all right if that’s what is
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length ‘Of pinching this book to get it back there must be
something damn odd about it. What is it? I smell a seller.
‘And IT, he added modestly, ‘can smell one ten miles away.
Hence my success.’
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He gave me a withering glance. ‘Of course I read it,’ he
said. ‘Unlike a certain celebrated literary agent I always
read the books I personally handle. It was cloak and dagger
stuff, From what I could see excellent of its kind. Well
written, too — I never publish a badly written book.’ Think-
ing about the book had aroused his excitement. He got up
from his chair, tried to prance about the tiny room and failed.
Then he stretched out a long forefinger and tapped me on
the chest. ‘But there was more in it than that,’ he went on.
‘The fellow had something to say. It wasn’t just another cut
and thruster. He was putting down what made people do
these things — if it can be put down, which I doubt. He was
trying, anyway.’
‘Were you going to publish it?’ I asked.
‘It needed cutting and cohesion and polishing. He didn’t
know much about construction, your Mr Rawle. But yes, if
it got the O.K. from you that it wasn’t bogus, I’d have taken
it.’
‘Had anyone else read it? Don’t you have to get opinions
from others in the firm before you finally take a book?”
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