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"Have a little hot Scotch for the cough," he suggested, reluctantly. "What's the use? I may just as well give it to him, here," he added to himself. "The boy's trebly doomed and a drop more or less isn't going to make any difference either way." He busied himself with a spirit lamp and glasses and soon his visitor was gulping down the proffered draught, greedily.
"That's good!" he exclaimed. "That puts life in me. I feel as if I could write something now--something worth while."
"Something unfit for reading, I suppose you mean," returned his host, cheerfully.
The boy laughed easily and settled back among the cushions of his easy chair with panther-like grace.
"Not a bit of it," he answered, gaily. "I only write them after gin. The best thing I ever did was gin--'Sin's Lure.' You read it?"
"I did."
"Strong, wasn't it?"
"Strong, yes. So is a--so are various other things strong. Just the sort of thing a diseased, vice-racked, dissipated young--genius--like you might be expected to produce. What bothers me now is your prose. Anything more uncharacteristic"--
The boy laughed and gazed at the older man, intently and mischievously.
"Nothing morbid about that, is there?"
"Nothing. Bright, dainty, unerringly truthful, delightfully witty--how in thunder do you do it? You must have two souls."
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