"Born?" he asked.

"June 4, 1864, at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson."

"And he is married?"

"Married Amanda Rogers Long, at Newport, Rhode Island, June 14, 1895."

"Where is he living now?" he asked.

"Last year he was living in New York--I am a widow, as you know--but last fall
he went to Algiers."

"The book says Algiers. What-er-clubs is he a member of?"

"Oh, yes," said Mrs. Smith; "The Authors and The Century."

"I have no doubt," said the minister, "from what the book says, and what you
say, that you are indeed the sister of this--ah--celebrated"--he looked at the
book--"celebrated novelist, who is a man of such standing that he received--ah--
several more lines in this work than the average, more, in fact, than Talmage,
more than Beecher, and more than the present governor of the State of Iowa. I
think I may safely advise Mrs. Bell to let Susan go with you."

"One!" said Eliph' Hewlitt quickly. "That's just ONE question that came up
flaring, and was mashed flat by Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium
of Literature, Science and Art, a book in which are ten thousand and one
subjects, fully treated by the best minds of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. One subject for every day in the year for twenty-seven years, and