Miss Pauline Marvin,
Carson & Brown,
Publishers, 9 Weston Place,
Philadelphia.
New York.
Dear Madam:
After reading your marine story, published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, we have decided you are just the person to write a new serial we have in mind.
Would you be interested to call on us at your earliest opportunity?
Yours very truly,
J. R. Carson."
Owen sealed, addressed and, stamped the letter and enclosed it in a larger envelope, which he addressed to a friend in Philadelphia, with instructions to post the enclosure in that city.
He did not trust the mailing of the double letter to a servant, but, putting on his motor togs, prepared to ride to Westbury.
"Well, he's got a reprieve; he's going to stay with us one more day,"
Pauline cried, happily, as she met Owen in the hall.