It was necessarythat a book should pay largely to maintain this pretentiousestablishment. He had sworn once, when he had finally finished 'A Tramp Abroad', that hewould never limit himself as to time again. until his financialdisaster, as a member of the firm of Grant & Ward, had he been willing toconsider the matter. Later, the usual crowd of admirers gatheredaround him, among them I remember the minister from Costa Rica, the
rently turned to his private ledger, consulted it, then drewa check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars The studio was coziness itself. So many of them came from children, usually without the hope of a reply,some signed only with initials, that the writers might not be open to thesuspicion of being seekers for his autograph. but a post-office--that the procession of visitorsand the bundles of mail fully warranted this statement.
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