CHAPTER 2. THE ARTISTIC CAREER OF CORKY-2

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But Jeeves had a solution, of course. 'I fancy it would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee. It is only necessary that the young lady's name should appear on the title page.' 'That's true,' said Corky. 'Sam Patterson would do it for a hundred dollars. He writes a novelette, three short stories, and ten thousand words of a serial for one of the all-fiction magazines under different names every month. A little thing like this would be nothing to him. I'll get after him right away.' 'Fine!' 'Will that be all, sir?' said Jeeves. 'Very good, sir. Thank you, sir.' I always used to think that publishers had to be devilish intelligent fellows, loaded down with the grey matter; but I've got their

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