Crossword-Solution: SLAYTON 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This method of the _Hearthstone_ was well known to Allen Slayton when he wrote his novelette entitled “Love Is All.” Slayton had hung about the editorial offices of all the magazines so persistently that he was acquainted with the inner workings of every one in Gotham.

She was an oldish, thin, exclusive, languishing, sentimental maid; and Slayton had been introduced to her some time before.

Brave Slayton! Châteaubriand died in a garret, Byron courted a widow, Keats starved to death, Poe mixed his drinks, De Quincey hit the pipe, Ade lived in Chicago, James kept on doing it, Dickens wore white socks, De Maupassant wore a strait-jacket, Tom Watson became a Populist, Jeremiah wept, all these authors did these things for the sake of literature, but thou didst cap them all; thou marriedst a wife for to carve for thyself a niche in the temple of fame! On Friday morning Mrs.

Slayton said she would go over to the _Hearthstone_ office, hand in one or two manuscripts that the editor had given to her to read, and resign her position as stenographer.

Slayton, hugging himself internally, was nursing in his heart the exquisite hope of being able to crush the office boy with his forthcoming success.