"There is another Frontier Week at Sterling," he said eagerly. "A fine
one, better than this. It isn't far over there. You would get more
material at Sterling, I think. Can't you go on up?"
"I have been away from Chicago four weeks now," said Connie. "In
exactly two weeks I must be at my desk again."
"Chicago is not a healthy town," he said, in a voice that would have
done credit to his father, the medical man. "Very unhealthy. It is
not literary either. Out west is the place for literature. All the
great writers come west. Western stories are the big sellers. There's
Ralph Connor, and Rex Beach, and Jack London and--and--"
"But I am not a great writer," Connie interrupted modestly. "I am just
a common little filler-in in the ranks of a publishing house. I'm only
a beginner."
"That is because you stick to Chicago," he said eloquently. "You come
out here, out in the open, where things are wide and free, and you can
see a thousand miles at one stretch. You come out here, and you'll be
as great as any of 'em,--greater!"
The loud clamor of the dinner bell interrupted his impassioned outburst
and he relapsed into stricken silence.
"Well, we must go to dinner before the supply runs out," said David,
rising slowly.
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