"It is a college story, and I wrote it without ever dreaming that Waltonville might read it or that any one would take it. I have represented people here in it."
"Not by name!"
"No; but I said one professor in the story had dangling shoelaces."
"Whose?"
"Dr. Lister's."
"Do his shoelaces dangle? What else?"
"I described a den like Dr. Scott's."
"Is that all?"
"Yes."