BARRIE WATCHED HER.
We hope there is still some whore in the world the lady who was onceseen reading Sir James Barrio's first book. Sir James has been telling the story.
The man who had written the book, he says, remembers like yesterday the only person he ever saw reading it. She was a stranger to him and it was in a box outside Denny's bookshop in Holy well street. The drizzle of an autumnal day had ceased, and from the Strand came the roar of a great city.
Ho stood watching her. She was a brunette, willowy, but the chief thing about her was that she was reading his book. Several times she tried to go away from it, but she had to return to it. Her tapered fingers strayed again and again to her purse,
The sun was* now sinking in tlio west. At last slie won't off without buying, but he felt that if the book had been, ever so little better lie would feasg got im 7
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 16 March 1929, Page 15
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171BARRIE WATCHED HER. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 16 March 1929, Page 15
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